Relationship between assemblage thinking and actor-network theory

The similarities between assemblage thinking and ANT are striking. Both have a relational view of the world, in which action results from linking together initially disparate elements. Both emphasise emergence, where the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Both have a topological view of space, in which distance is a function of the intensity of a relation. And both underscore the importance of the socio-material, i.e. that the world is made up of associations of human and non-human elements.

– Assemblage thinking and actor‐network theory: conjunctions, disjunctions, cross‐fertilisations