"Media. Means. Infrastructures. Regimes. Technics. Technologies. Technai. Kulturtechniken. Platforms. Containers. Utilities. Standards. Logistics. Materialities. Assemblages. Apparatus. Vessels. Environments. Ecologies. Umwelten. Networks. Actor-networks. Milieux. Ambiances. Ensembles. Kit. Gear. Gestell. Paraphernalia. Tools. Implements. Machines. Equipment. Protocols. Clouds. Elements. Operations. Operative ontologies. Hardware. Software. Wetware. Trappings"
(John Durham Peters, Foreword, Assembly Codes, 2021)