ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the intersection between assemblage theory and urban studies, especially focusing on some of the most significant critique moved to so-called 'assemblage urbanism'. It explores these critiques by introducing the notions of atmosphere, rhythm, and tuning, as a way to pursue said 'intersection' by eschewing the risks critique so aptly emphasises. The urban is materiality never fully totalisable into a frozen actuality, populated and constituted by differentiating, persevering and swerving bodies, simultaneously singular and in-relation, bodies that can 'be measured or registered by relations'. The city is a surface where events take place, a 'state of thriving differences which do not submit to any categorisation, identification or totalisation'; an agonistic field of 'free play' in which ideal distance or peaceful dialectics are chimera. The urban theory has come to integrate the impulses coming from materialism, post-humanism, non-representational theory, affect studies and other radical dimension of critical geography and philosophical thinking.
