Material-Affective Assemblage Thinking in Researching Scalar Phenomena

Shama Patel, Mathias Tinghøj Hansen

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Abstract

We present material-affective assemblage thinking as an alternate theoretical lens to sociomateriality in the study of scalar phenomena that scale multidimensionally and multitemporally. We argue that given their unbounded characteristics, such phenomena are challenging to study using sociomateriality that anchors ontological realism to intra-action contingent on observed practices, operating within bounded spaces. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari, we propose an ontology of immanence where there are no inherent boundaries between bodies, only co-existence, and extension of assemblages through affective flows. Conceiving three conceptual devices – assemblages as virtual worlds, affects as flows, and time-space as rythmscapes – we exercise our theoretical lens on the case of the George Floyd big bang to illustrate how material-affective assemblage thinking can be used to research phenomena that flow as an ongoing process of becoming, agglomerating larger territories in co-functioning that transcend material, non-material, time, and space boundaries.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of the 43 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) : Digitization for the Next Generation
RedaktørerTilo Böhmann, Kai-Lung Hui, Viswanath Venkatesh
Antal sider14
UdgivelsesstedAtlanta, GA
ForlagAssociation for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Publikationsdato12 dec. 2022
Artikelnummer1800
StatusUdgivet - 12 dec. 2022
BegivenhedThe 43rd International Conference on Information Systems: ICIS 2022: Digitization for the Next Generation - Copenhagen, Danmark
Varighed: 9 dec. 202214 dec. 2022
Konferencens nummer: 43
https://icis2022.aisconferences.org/

Konference

KonferenceThe 43rd International Conference on Information Systems: ICIS 2022
Nummer43
Land/OmrådeDanmark
ByCopenhagen
Periode09/12/202214/12/2022
Internetadresse
NavnProceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems
ISSN0000-0033

Emneord

  • Affects
  • Assemblage
  • Flows
  • Scale
  • Sociomateriality
  • Deleuze and Guattari

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