Vi möter medietekniken genom förståelsen av en assemblage; att medie/a – teknik inte existerar utan relationen som binder dem samman. Medieteknik skapas på så sätt genom interaktioner och samverkan mellan de termer som utgör området och syftar alltid på en praktik. En assemblage är en kommunikation, en pågående process – aldrig statisk, alltid produktiv. Utgångspunkten och metoden blir således att ingå partnerskap, utifrån assemblages, med och genom den medietekniska praktiken – i syfte att befinna oss i mitten, i kopplingen, i mötet. Det första partnerskapet vi utgår ifrån är den i vår rubrik: TRANS–MISSION. Trans- står för det överskridande, det öppna, det osäkra medan mission- står för riktningen, avgränsningen, uppdraget. Vi utgår inte från vad ett medium är eller representerar utan vad ett medium gör och producerar. Vår undersökning syftar till att utmana dualistiska synsätt på medieteknik, såsom form och innehåll, designer och produkt, teori och praktik. Vi ifrågasätter antropocentriska förhållningssätt till teknik och material, samt tendensen att se mediet som en statisk överföringsprocess. Undersökningen tar sin utgångspunkt i Gilles Deleuzes och Félix Guattaris filosofi och begreppsapparat främst från det omfattande verket, Tusen Platåer (1980). Ett arbete i syfte att skapa en ontologi som inte utgår från en transcendental världsbild, utan istället en värld i konstant tillblivelse genom kopplingar och flöden. I fokus står relationerna snarare än punkter, identiteter eller hållplatser. / We approach media technology through the understanding of an assemblage; that media– technology cannot exist without one another. Consequently, media-technology are created through the interactions between and co-evolution of the terms that create the field. An assemblage is a communication, an ongoing process – never static always productive. The starting point and method are thus to enter into partnerships, based on assemblages, with and through media technology practice - in order to be in the middle, in the connection, in the nexus. The first partnership we use is in our title: TRANS-MISSION. Trans stands for the excess, the open, the uncertain, while mission is the direction, the demarcation, and the assignment. We do not depend on what a medium is or represents but what a medium does and produces. Our research aims to challenge dualistic approaches to media technology, such as form and content, designer and product, theory and practice. We question anthropocentric approaches to technology and materials, as well as the tendency to view the medium as a static transfer process. The study is based on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's philosophy and conceptual apparatus, mainly derived from their seminal work, A Thousand Plateaus (1980); a work that strives to create an ontology that does not assume a transcendent worldview, but a world in constant becoming through connections and flows. Relations are in focus, rather than points, identities or stops.

This thesis study focuses on transmission expansion planning (TEP) problem for restructured power systems and addresses challenges specifically in countries where electricity market is in developing phase after liberalization of power industry for establishing a competitive market, like Turkey. A novel multi-year TEP approach is developed which considers generation investment cost and transmission congestion level in the planning horizon. The model assesses the impact of generation investments on TEP problem. Benders decomposition methodology is utilized successfully to decompose the complex mixed-integer programming TEP problem into a master problem and two subproblems. Security subproblem assesses single-contingency criteria. Transmission congestion cost is considered within operational subproblem given that congestion level is a proper criterion for measuring competitiveness level of an electricity market. The proposed approach is applied to the Turkish power system. The proposed approach could be utilized to provide indicative plans, which might be quite necessary particularly during development of a competitive market. However, there is no guarantee that independent power producers (IPPs) will follow those plans which concern the maximization of social-welfare. Given the necessity of coordinating monopoly transmission and decentralized generator investment decisions, the proposed approach is improved further to include promoting decentralized generator investments through incentive payments. Such incentives might be necessary to trigger IPPs earlier than their projections, as illustrated by numerical examples including IEEE 30-bus system.