An assemblage is a collection of persons or things : gathering; an an artistic composition made from scraps, junk, and odds and ends (as of paper, cloth, wood, stone, or metal) — Merriam-Webster Dictionary

#1: It is now normal that in the future the consumer will pay less for a device that can do more, but at the same time will reach a state of obsolescence faster. This quest for complete transparency (the perfect, invisible interface) has changed the computer system into a highly complex assemblage that is hard to penetrate, and sometimes even completely closed off. The system consists of layers of obfuscated protocols that find their origin in ideologies, economies, political hierarchies and social conventions.— Rosa Menkman, The Glitch Studies Manifesto (2011)