Assemblage

Oil is usually found deep under ground, but the greater Los Angeles area up through the Santa Barbara area is one of a few places in the world where oil is not just close to the surface, it is on the surface, bubbling in cold pits of bitumen, also known as asphalt and tar. This asphaltum has been important to humans for as long as they have lived in the region. In the past it was primarily used to waterproof boats, water carriers, and cooking vessels or as an adhesive. Now, of course we use…

one have to say about a certain topic that cannot be said? While there are many people have found it is nearly impossible to explain the Holocaust, some have been able to explain the unspeakable by the use of literary devices, graphic novels, and assemblage to explain the Holocaust. An effective way that survivors share their experiences in the Holocaust is by using literary devices. Elie Wiesel provides information about the Holocaust in his book, “Night” he explains the unspeakable…

found a much deeper meaning behind this simple grate. This grate caught my eye because as Bennett talks about in her writing on assemblage this grate felt like it had the power in my eyes, even though it wasn’t a living thing. Bennett said the world is filled “with all sorts of animate beings, some human, some not, some organic, some not.”(Bennett, 2005, Agency of Assemblage, p.1) So even though the grate wasn’t technically alive it…

Himalayas and the Tethys Himalayas (Amano and Taira, 1992); surprisingly this river flows through over these three domains (Fig.1). The mineral assemblages are correlated with these subdivisions of the Himalayas on the basis of the similarity between the inferred geology from mineral assemblages and each provenance-geology. The diversity of detrital mineral assemblages is particularly prominent in modern and ancient siliciclastic sequences of river sediments. The value of the technique lies not…

training and communication. These patches are neither closed nor isolated; they shift with new materials. Their distinctiveness is not prior logic but an effect of the convergence. Watching them returns me to the open-ended gathering I am calling assemblages. Here layered, inconsistent, and jumbled ontologies form even within the domain of the machine. Matsutake science and forestry are vivid examples…

The dramatic growth of executive power and the emergence of welfare programs led some people to develop a sense of entitlement to federal support programs. In 1934, an assemblage of traditionalist businessmen and politicians, including Alfred E. Smith and John W. Davis, two former Democratic presidential candidates, fashioned the American Liberty League to oppose New Deal procedures as violations of personal and property…

paleoecological sequence. Specially addressing how Prehistoric Native American populations bred and selected for plant-food resources in Eastern Kentucky during the Pleistocene and early Holocene (Delcourt, 1998). 36 radiocarbon-dated, botanical assemblages, mostly charcoal, obtained from Cloudsplitter Rockshelter and the Cold Oak Shelter point toward specific evidence of Native American influence upon the landscape (Delcourt, 1998). We understand through the charcoal remains how these…

The Illegal Operation an Essential Contribution to Social Protest/Affirmation This paper will focus on the sculpture, The Illegal Operation (1962) by Edward Kienholz. The assemblage sculpture can be found on the second floor of the Ahmanson Building at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Although understated at first, this sculpture deals with the taboo practice of abortions regulated in the 1960’s. In this paper I will discuss why this sculpture would make a good contribution to our textbook,…

Colorado we had tunnels of stone built into the mountains on highways but this was a whole new experience. The beauty of it was amazing, yet I couldn’t help but think that just because it’s beautiful doesn’t mean it’s natural. Those trees were an assemblage interacting with each other and the road beneath them. They are ever encroaching attempting to grow into the road but we as humans keep them in check under control. Letting the trees live, but not letting them prosper and grow. This is what…

Scientifically music is the organisation of vibrations. However Blacking(1973) stated `Music is a humanly organised sound`. This quote heavily implies that music is human and because of this it is important to understand, why we acquire our musical taste, is it individual or a social product and why we as humans use music; this is what I will be discussing during this essay. Using theorists like Raphael Nowak, Theodor Adorno, Pierre Bourdieu, D.Hesmonhalgh and Simon Frith during this essay will…