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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Powered by assemblage : language for multiplicity

Sari Pietikäinen

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050101 languages & linguisticsLinguistics and LanguageCold RushcommonsBoomLanguage and LinguisticssosiolingvistiikkaTemporalitiesArcticmoninaisuusassemblagediskurssiAssemblage (archaeology)multiplicity0501 psychology and cognitive sciences0601 history and archaeologySociologytimearktinen alue060101 anthropologyMarketing buzz05 social sciences06 humanities and the artsdiskurssintutkimuskompleksisuusEpistemologyThe arcticBustkielenkäyttödiscourseCommonskielellinen vuorovaikutus

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Abstract Assemblage is one way to examine complexities in today’s world. In Deleuzian thinking, assemblage refers to both the act of assembling diverse elements and the arrangements of these elements for a specific purpose. Importantly, it is the interaction between elements that allows the assemblage to become more than the sum of its parts. Applying this concept to long-term research on Cold Rush – the transformation of the Arctic commons into commodities – I argue that examining the boom, bust, and buzz around the commons can be fruitfully conceptualised and studied with assemblage. This approach brings with it an ontological shift from binaries into multiplicities and multiple temporalities. Assemblage also sheds light on the role of discourse in these transformations and shows how language gains its productive force only in collaboration with other elements.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2021-03-01
http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202212155633