| Summary: | This paper was presented in a symposium session chaired by Kathy Mills entitled: Literacy as a Body without Organs: Democratic Assemblages, Multiplicities, and Intensities of Multimodal Practices. The session draws on Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) metaphor of the “body without organs” to open democratic dialogue about the assemblages, democratic multiplicities, and intensities of multimodal literacy practices that are often augmented and metamorphosed by digital technologies. Enacting this vision, we position our work to “experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, [and] find potential movements of deterritorialization” (Deleuze and Guattari 1987, p. 161). The session brings together literacy theorists in the digital times to produce both flows and conjunctions of ideas. We address one challenge: to “try out continuums of intensities segment by segment…” (Deleuze and Guattari 1987, p. 161). Overall Session Summary Objectives: We aim to catalyze “conjugated flows” of literacy practices among the five presentations, demonstrating instances of multimodal and digitally mediated communication from around the world. Together, we ultimately escape from the box to bring forth intensities of literacy practices to imagine a new kind of “body without organs” (Deleuze and Guattari 1987, p. 161). Forming a creative response to AERA’s 2016 theme: “Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies” we demonstrate how literacy practices can be conceived as democratic assemblages that account for diverse multiplicities of identity, culture and practice. The aim is not to become caught up in endless self-reproduction, but to bring together new “assemblages”, “segmentarities”, and “lines of flight” to create new “intensities” of literacy practices that are mediated by digital technologies and that are realized locally and globally (Deleuze and Guattari 1987, p. 161). Overview: Uniting perspectives of literacy, diversity, and democratic practices in education, the symposium session will begin by ...
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