A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity re-assembles many components from DeLanda's previous books and is a masterful articulation of his own style. The book provides a rigorous and highly usable conceptual framework for the analysis assemblages.It is an attempt to loosely define a new ontology for use by social theorists - one that challenges the existing paradigm of meaningful social analyses being possible only on the level of either individuals or of society as a whole. Instead, the book employs Deleuze's theory of assemblages to posit social entities on all scales that are best analysed through their components.
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