[Dancecult-l] A geneology of "assemblage"?

[Graham St John]

I recall Tim Jordan's piece refers to assemblage:

Jordan, Tim. (1995) 'Collective Bodies: Raving and the Politics of 
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari', Body and Society 1(1):125-144.

Graham




At 9:55 AM -0400 10/4/06, tobias c. van Veen wrote:
>Yes, a good example of such work too would be Steve Goodman's _Speed
>Tribes_:
>
>2004 'Speed Tribes: netwar, affective hacking and the audio-social' in F.
>Leibl (ed.) Cultural Hacking, Taschen. 2006 'Audio Virology' in S. Goodman &
>A. Greenspan (eds.) Cybernetic Culture Research Unit.
>
>For those in the dubstep scene Steve Goodman is otherwise known as Kode9 who
>runs Hyperdub, and from the '90s, ex-CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit)
>member. Hence.. someone who lives the Deleuzean, err, mindset.
>
>Another essential text would be Kodwo Eshun's _More Brilliant than the Sun_
>which is perhaps the most eloquent and innovative incorporation of Deleuze
>and the electronic in thinking technoculture.
>
>A good journal to check out would be Fibreculture, which is host to much
>Deleuze-work in the areas of network politics and culture:
>     http://journal.fibreculture.org/
>
>On another tangent, there's also Iain Borden's _Skateboarding, Space and the
>City_ which makes casual though succinct use of Deleuze in thinking
>architecture and skateboarder (subcultural) relations.
>
>Good luck,
>
>     tobias
>
>ps. 'Dogging' was in part, it seems -- and this isn't proven -- something of
>a media prank by the ex-KLF, which makes an intriguing tie between Cauty &
>Drummond's forays into techno-pop culture, technology, and sex. Whether this
>prank rode the back of an actual phenomenon, instigated it, or amplified it,
>I'm not sure. Whatever the case it is yet another KLF myth...
>
>
>
>>  Delueze and Guattari discuss "assemblage" in "A Thousand Plateaus".
>>  
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>>  Hope this helps,
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>>>  My pardons for x-posting!
>>>
>>>  I recently read a journal article in which an emergent sexual
>>>  practice/subculture ("dogging" -- see citation below) was conceptualized as
>>>  (roughly) an assemblage of bodies, technologies, spaces, and antecedent
>>>  sexual
>>>  practices and subcultures.
>>>
>>>  Although my research is concerned with well-established, long-standing, and
>>>  global subcultures (graffiti artists and goths), the "assemblages"
>>>  conceptualization might solve some on-going problems with the way 
>>>that youth
>>>  subcultures have been framed (in past and recent scholarship), while also
>>>  accounting for local variations. I write to ask:
>>>
>>>  *What are the key readings for understanding the geneology of 
>>>"assemblage" as
>>>  a
>>>  way of framing cultural practices/communities?
>>>
>>>  *Are you aware of any scholarship dealing with subcultures (youth or
>  >> otherwise)
>>>  that put this framework to use?
>>>
>>>  Thanx for the always-insightful responses of the academic e-communities!
>>>  Please
>>>  respond on-list!
>>>
>>>  love and kisses,
>>>
>>>  joe austin, history, uw-milwaukee, usa
>>>
>>>  David Bell, "Bodies, Technologies, Spaces: On 'Dogging'" _Sexualities_
>>>  (2006),
>>>  vol9(4): 387-407.
>>>
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