Material-Affective Assemblage Thinking in Researching Scalar Phenomena

Shama Patel; Mathias Tinghøj Hansen

Material-Affective Assemblage Thinking in Researching Scalar Phenomena

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 43 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) : Digitization for the Next Generation
Editors	Tilo Böhmann, Kai-Lung Hui, Viswanath Venkatesh
Number of pages	14
Place of Publication	Atlanta, GA
Publisher	Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Publication date	12 Dec 2022
Article number	1800
Publication status	Published - 12 Dec 2022
Event	The 43rd International Conference on Information Systems: ICIS 2022: Digitization for the Next Generation - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 9 Dec 2022 → 14 Dec 2022 Conference number: 43 https://icis2022.aisconferences.org/

Conference

Conference	The 43rd International Conference on Information Systems: ICIS 2022
Number	43
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	09/12/2022 → 14/12/2022
Internet address	https://icis2022.aisconferences.org/

Series	Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems
ISSN	0000-0033

Keywords

Affects
Assemblage
Flows
Scale
Sociomateriality
Deleuze and Guattari

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Patel, S., & Hansen, M. T. (2022). Material-Affective Assemblage Thinking in Researching Scalar Phenomena. In T. Böhmann, K.-L. Hui, & V. Venkatesh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS): Digitization for the Next Generation Article 1800 Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2022/adv_methods/adv_methods/7/

Patel, Shama ; Hansen, Mathias Tinghøj. / Material-Affective Assemblage Thinking in Researching Scalar Phenomena. Proceedings of the 43 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS): Digitization for the Next Generation. editor / Tilo Böhmann ; Kai-Lung Hui ; Viswanath Venkatesh. Atlanta, GA : Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), 2022. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems).

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Patel, S & Hansen, MT 2022, Material-Affective Assemblage Thinking in Researching Scalar Phenomena. in T Böhmann, K-L Hui & V Venkatesh (eds), Proceedings of the 43 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS): Digitization for the Next Generation., 1800, Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), Atlanta, GA, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, The 43rd International Conference on Information Systems: ICIS 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, 09/12/2022. <https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2022/adv_methods/adv_methods/7/>

Material-Affective Assemblage Thinking in Researching Scalar Phenomena. / Patel, Shama; Hansen, Mathias Tinghøj.
Proceedings of the 43 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS): Digitization for the Next Generation. ed. / Tilo Böhmann; Kai-Lung Hui; Viswanath Venkatesh. Atlanta, GA: Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), 2022. 1800 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems).

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Patel S, Hansen MT. Material-Affective Assemblage Thinking in Researching Scalar Phenomena. In Böhmann T, Hui KL, Venkatesh V, editors, Proceedings of the 43 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS): Digitization for the Next Generation. Atlanta, GA: Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). 2022. 1800. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems).