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It considers ways in which classification both influences and is influenced by the spatio-temporal assemblages of things.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 Visual and textual ethnographic field data collected to document the museum tour are interpreted using a phenomenological approach. Jane Bennett\u2019s agency of assemblage is used to contextualize these instants of interruption within the space\/time arrangements of objects within the museum.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 The \u201cmarginal\u201d category of translator commentary emerged during data coding to reveal \u201cinstants of interruption.\u201d These instants exhibited classificatory tendencies that revealed relationships between seemingly disparate elements. 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