La teoría del ensamblaje de Manuel DeLanda. Una propuesta realista y materialista para el siglo XXI

“Assemblage theory” is the name given to the philosophical proposal of the philosopher Manuel DeLanda, one of the less explored strands within the realist turn in twenty-first-century philosophy. His proposal offers conceptual clarification and enrichment for undertaking, with due depth, the ontological examination of the real, providing a powerful ontology for use in the study of the social as well as of the entities of the sciences in a generic sense, insofar as it does not undermine the autonomy of entities while nonetheless not denying their relations with others, taking as its conceptual axis the Deleuzian notion of assemblage. DeLanda’s work contributes to blurring the oft-invoked division between analytic and Continental philosophy, seeking to generate an encounter between scientists and philosophers and defending a realist and materialist philosophy on the basis of sources traditionally associated with postmodernity. The present paper undertakes a survey of its most general aspects.