Understanding Society

The approach to social and historical research that I favor is one that pays attention to the heterogeneity and contingency of social ...

A primary reason for thinking that assemblage theory is important is the fact that it offers new ways of thinking about social ontology....

image: Carnap's notes on Frege's Begriffsschrift seminar Part of Manuel DeLanda's work in Assemblage Theory is his hope t...

Manuel DeLanda has been a prominent exponent of the theory of assemblage for English-speaking readers for at least ten years. His 2006 b...

Paul Draus and Juliette Roddy have been involved in street-level sociological research in Detroit for over ten years. Roddy is an econ...

In  A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity  Manuel DeLanda takes up one of Deleuze's key ideas. This is...

What does Actor-Network Theory have to add to the kinds of issues in the foundations of the social sciences that are of interest here? AN...

The social world is not like the natural world. Nature is composed of things, forces, and geometries that have strong determining regular...

Almost the first words of Bruno Latour's Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory include this intriguing st...