Critics interested in assemblages are interested in non-human assemblages and what the relationships, entanglements, and intensities within them. For example, Anna Tsing in The Mushroom of the End of the World looks at Matsutake mushroom forests, and Vinciane Despret looks at birds. Critics interested in assemblages are also interested in what happens when computer technology is involved in mapping and presenting observations.
In this talk, I presented how in my literary research I am using a database to collect, in digital text form, 102 works of literature set in Paris published between 1841 and 1913. The idea of using a database is to see what happens if I place my own analyses and conclusions on the same plane as that of artificial intelligence, and see what we both learn from each other.