assemblage. The deterritorializing role would be played by such factors as climate change, invasion by exotic species, evolutionary mutation and other elements that recombine or replace various components and roles within the assemblage, leading to its dissipation or reformulation. A linguistic/coding role could be played by an environmental discourse seeking to protect an ecosystem. Consistent with DeLanda's materialist position, the book also includes as a secondary task a sustained criticism of the primacy of post-modernist linguistic analysis in social science (the theory of the linguistics of experience). References Further reading DeLanda, Manuel (2006) A New Philosophy of Society: assemblage theory and social complexity, London & New York: Continuum 2006 non-fiction books Books by Manuel DeLanda English-language books Gilles Deleuze Ontology Philosophy books Social philosophy literature