Thanks for this, Alistair. I’m trying to determine if “affect” as you explain it will be useful in my political-economic critique of mass communication, “Secession From the Broadcast.” It’s the summation of my lifelong commitment to media-based radical political theory, and I want to reach beyond the standard conceptual tools of “media studies,” which I taught for 40 years.
On February 16, 2020 at 3:50:36 AM, Alistair Stray ([email protected]) wrote: I think its increasing use, and framed definition, comes from it's use by Deleuze & Guattari ,.. Simon O'sullivans paper is the best example I can think of https://simonosullivan.net/articles/aesthetics-of-affect.pdf But the original texts, Logic of Sensation, Cinema 1 & 2 and Mille Plateau are better sources. Its a major concept in their philosophy, and isn't easy to explain as the concepts all weave within each other but the WIki page on their use of the word has a nice precis.. The terms "affect" and "affection" came to prominence in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, the second volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. In his notes on the terminology employed, the translator Brian Massumi gives the following definitions of the terms as used in the volume: AFFECT/AFFECTION. Neither word denotes a personal feeling (sentiment in Deleuze and Guattari). L'affect (Spinoza's affectus) is an ability to affect and be affected. It is a prepersonal intensity corresponding to the passage from one experiential state of the body to another and implying an augmentation or diminution in that body's capacity to act. L'affection (Spinoza's affectio) is each such state considered as an encounter between the affected body and a second, affecting, body (with body taken in its broadest possible sense to include "mental" or ideal bodies).[10] Affects, according to Deleuze, are not simple affections, as they are independent from their subject. Artists create affects and percepts, "blocks of space-time", whereas science works with functions, according to Deleuze, and philosophy creates concepts. - Stray On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 3:07 AM Fred Camper <[email protected]> wrote: I'd bve interested if someone up on the latest in academicese weighs in with something different, but to me this looks like a standard use of the word "affect" as a noun. Here is what I take the be the relevant definition from the OED: "the outward display of emotion or mood, as manifested by facial expression, posture, gestures, tone of voice, etc." Fred Camper Chicago On 2/15/2020 8:37 PM, Gene Youngblood wrote: Academic Frameworkers: I like to keep abreast of trends in academic language, and I've noticed an increased use of the word “affect” in scholarly papers. It has become fashionable, but the spin being put on it isn’t clear to me. Could someone please tell me what “affect” means here for example: "gestures of affect and intervention.” It seems different from something like “that doesn’t affect me.” Respond off list if you wish [email protected]. Thanks. _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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