Urban Assemblages (Graduate Class)
Fall 2014
Urban Arrangements offers students an introduction to the concept of assemblage (or agencement [arrangement]) in the context of urban studies. In Urban Studies the concept of assemblage and related work derived from Actor-Network-Theory is credited with transforming and challenging conventional understandings of the object of study. Some of the most important texts coming out of urban studies over the past decade have utilized, both explicitly and implicitly, an agencement approach.