This course explores the concept of the assemblage. We will read theoretical work defining assemblages, critical work in which the assemblage is a key concept, and works on different but related critical and theoretical concepts. Our goal will be first, to understand what an assemblage is and what it can do; second, we will investigate the extent to which the idea of the assemblage may structure anti-racist and decolonial scholarship; and third, we will experiment with using the concept in our own critical work. Reading assignments will include works by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Giorgio Agamben, Jane Bennet, Judith Butler, Manuel DeLanda, Bruno Latour, Jasbir Puar, Alexander Weheliye, Sylvia Wynter. Requirements include active class participation, one in-class presentation, two short written assignments, and a final project.