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ApparatusThe term apparatus, as I understand it, is informed by Deleuze's interpretations. A dispositif is a machine for making, seeing and making talk, it is not just a concrete object, but a set of lines, a set of connections that is never homogeneous and always unbalanced and intertwined. The only way to unravel this skein is to try to draw the maps of the terrain by traversing unexplored lands. 
All devices have lines of rupture, of invisibility, of enunciation, of force, of structure, of crack, of codes, of rupture. Action always takes place within a device and is the result of its constructive and discursive conditioning.

How far do the ramifications of a device extend? 

Wor(l)ding

 The notion of 'worlding' arising from non-representational theory provides a useful lens through which process of human-non-human enmeshment can be considered. Kathleen Stewart (2012) provides a definition of worlding referring to the "affective nature" of the world in which "non-human agency" comprising of "forms, rhythms and refrains" (for example)reach a point of "expressivity" for an individual and develop a sense of "legibility". Through this process a particular 'world' emerges for the individual through their engagement with a number of interrelated phenomena.
The performativity of the noun that repeats itself as a verb or gerund; the world's worlding, is the setting up of the world. Worlding is a particular blending of the material and the semiotic that removes the boundaries between subject and environment, or perhaps between persona and topos. Worlding affords the opportunity for the cessation of habitual temporalities and modes of being

Stewart, K. (2010) 'Worlding Refrains' in M. Gregg & G. Seigworth (eds) (2010) The Affect Theory Reader. London: Duke University Press, pp. 339 – 53

Gregg, M. & G. Seigworth (2010) (eds) The Affect Theory Reader. London: Duke University Press

Haraway, D. (2016) Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Haraway, D. (2008) When Species Meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press


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