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A Church is a Deleuzian Machine

  This paper will examine closely at the concept of assemblage which is vital in understanding the notion of ‘inorganic life’ proposed by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The concept emerged in the early twentieth century and is based on German art historian Wilhelm Worringer’s work. Forty-five years later the concept was appropriated by Deleuze and Guattari in their foremost work ‘A Thousand Plateaus’. This paper will examine the concept closely in relation to the Dapto Anglican Church designed by Jad Silvester and Penny Fuller. This auditorium building is a flexible event space for the Anglican community of Dapto, a town south of Sydney. It was designed in 2008 and completed in 2011. The aim of this paper is to explore how the Dapto Anglican Church operates as an Deleuzian assemblage most intensely in the manner by which the church was structured unlike a traditional church. This paper starts by examining how the Dapt

Enigmatic Beauty at the bottom of world: Candalepas

Church of the Living God by Candalepas                                Punchbowl Mosque by Candalepas