a note on assemblage theory: thing-power and the social

Some quick notes I wrote for a meeting on the (mis)use of assemblage theory that took place this afternoon. Read on.

 
Michael Sailstorfer, ‘Raketenbaum’

Adorno having a few speculative realist and object-oriented moments

While reading Adorno & Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment I was struck not merely by the complexity of their argument, but by the fact that their analysis of the achievements of Enlightenment shows so many (indirect) affiliations with recent developments in Speculative Realist or Object-Oriented ontologies.