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An assemblage of wall-door-lock is assumed as an example that characterizes a certain bedroom. However, if the order of assemblage is changed or if the assemblage is laid in another context, the meaning of the assemblage can also change to that of being a prison. In this sense, the lock has pure difference. In other works, a lock is a lock itself. The meaning of the lock becomes a fastener only when it is laid in a certain relation.
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'Ontology and Epistemology for Graphic design:
Difference, Emergence, and Assemblage as Ways of Thinking in Multi-cultural Context',
Byung-hak Ahn, Visual Communication at Royal College of Art, 2010-2012, p. 33

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2.26pm Sunday 20 March
A dramatic pictures of the impact of the air strike on Libya
taken by Reuters photographer
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(Right)
Same photo in different aseemblage (arrangement, agencement in Franch)

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20,000 Bananas, Doug Fishbone, Installation artist An ambitious projects involved up to 40 000 bananas piled up in public places. This project which touches on the themes of consumerism, violence and globalization has landed in London, New York, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Poland. The Brooklyn installation, measuring 2 metres high and 3 metres in diameter, took 4 hours and 3.5 tons of fruit. (http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/000932.php)
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(Top Right)
Facebook connections map the world, Facebook intern Paul Butler has been poring through some of the data held by the social networking firm on its 500m members. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11989723)
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(Bottom Right)
Unexpected Assamblage (Taken bu Ahn, 2003, Seoul, Korea)