Translation (Theory) as an Assemblage

This experimental book on translation borrows its title and methodology from the introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus . As they theorize it, an assemblage (French agencement ) works through a complex socio-material network characterized by fluidity, exchangeability, and connectivity. They contrast the assemblage with what they call the “root-tree,” which is rooted in stable ontological soil and issues forth into tidy binaries: one becomes two, two becomes four, and so on. A