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Agencement and Agency: If Gilles and Félix had met Stanley
Author(s) -
Daniels John
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/moth.12563
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , deleuze and guattari , narrative , assemblage (archaeology) , philosophy , epistemology , set (abstract data type) , event (particle physics) , order (exchange) , sociology , psychoanalysis , psychology , history , computer science , linguistics , archaeology , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , economics , programming language
The concept of the assemblage set out in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus is brought into dialogue with the notion of ethical agency found in the writings of Stanley Hauerwas. The discussion is structured around the process of the agent's narrative formation. Elements of complexity theory, in particular emergence, are adduced in order to explicate the points of difference between Deleuze and Guattari and Hauerwas, as are the contributions of those like Manuel DeLanda who have sought to further develop Deleuzean‐Guattarian ideas. The conclusion proposes disciple and Church as emergent forms structured by the Christ‐event conceived as an abstract machine.