What are recent examples of practices in which ‘assembling’ and
‘disseminating’ reconfigure agencies, resources, affects and information
to give rise to new forms of collectivities? This round table brings
together Björn Heerssen and Noel David Nicolaus from the
interdisciplinary collective Clusterduck, and sociologist Serhat
Karakayali to ask about the relationships and interdependencies between
‘assembling’ and ‘disseminating’ as constitutive mechanisms in processes
of collectivization. How do agencies, resources, affects and information
elevate processes of creating collective feelings? Together we discuss
how ‘assembling’ and ‘disseminating’ take shape in each example, leading
to different forms of collectivities; what practicable mechanisms,
interfaces and infrastructures come into play; and how do these two
instances approach possibilities of collective interaction
in terms of
‘sharing’ and ‘learning’.