Edward E. Wilson

The parts of an assemblage are the members of a set, different in kind from their co-members but of equal importance. The assemblage must contain every part necessary to do what the assemblage does. Each assemblage acts as a unit and can be a component of another assemblage. Additionally just as members can be in different sets at the same time, a component can be in multiple assemblages along different lines.

Works Cited
Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix. (1987). A Thousand Plateaus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.