“…People are not merely resilient, they do not simply get evicted and then cope, shout, organise, attend, fight back; but they are, by and large, part of a wider socio-technical machine populated by agencies and affective capacities that co-governs them and ‘their’ actions. Such a claim is in-line with the conspicuous literature on urban assemblages (Block and Farias, 2016; McFarlane and Anderson, 2011), socio-technical infrastructure (Amin, 2014; Larkin, 2013; Simone, 2015a), and vitalist ontologies (Bennett, 2010; Braidotti, 2013), which blur the boundaries between the self and the ‘outer’ world. As Amin and Thrift contend, humans are only ‘dividuals’ ‘who for most of the time are simply part of a combination of bodies or parts of bodies, resonating around a particular matter of concern’ (Amin and Thrift, 2013: 50).…”