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³ Mitchell, Timothy, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002), chap. 1Google Scholar.

⁴ Assemblages are used by Barak purposefully in line with a movement that pays careful attention not only to nonhuman agency but also to the agency of their contingent grouping or “assemblage” discussed most aptly by Jane Bennett as follows, “while individual entities and singular forces each exercise agentic capacities, isn't there also an agency proper to the groupings they form? This is the agency of assemblages: the distinctive efficacy of a working whole made up, variously, of somatic, technological, cultural, and atmospheric elements.” Bennett, Jane, “The Agency of Assemblages and the North American Blackout,” Public Culture 17 (2005): 446–47CrossRefGoogle Scholar.