sentences:  This means that a component is self-subsistent and may be "unplugged" from one assemblage and "plugged" into another without losing its identity.A third axis defines processes in which specialized expressive media (genetic/linguistic resources) intervene in "coding"/"decoding" the assemblage.According to DeLanda, following Deleuze's ideas of difference and repetition (what DeLanda calls "variable repetition"), assemblages necessarily exist in heterogeneous populations.