Collaboratory in Critical Security Methods
The International Collaboratory on Critical Methods in Security Studies is an ESRC funded project (RES-810-21-0072)
Bennett (2005) The Agency of Assemblages and the North American Blackout
Bennett, Jane (2005), "The Agency of Assemblages and the North American Blackout". In: Public Culture, 17(3), pp. 445–65.
The article uses the concept of assemblage to to highlight the conceptual and empirical inadequacy of human-centered notions of agency and to investigate some of the practical implications, for social scientific inquiry and for politics, of a notion of agency that crosses the human-nonhuman divide. It uses the electrical power grid and an account of the blackout that struck North America in August 2003 to discuss a materialist ontology.
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12 September 2011 (All day) - 13 September 2011 (All day)
3 March 2011 (All day) - 4 March 2011 (All day)
25 February 2010 (All day) - 26 February 2010 (All day)