What are the politics of affect? And is this a well-posed question in the first place? Why affect now? In what sense is a given politics affective? As discourses of shame sweep across dominant media in the UK, what are the implications of naming this discursive coding an affective politics? Is such an affect being [...]
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The Politics of Affect: Berlant on Affect and Austerity
Posted: December 27, 2010 in biopower, Deleuze, Diagramming Affective Ethics, Ecology of Sensation, Representation, ressentimentTags: affect, assemblage, Becoming, body, Ecology of Sensation, resonance, technology
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On the Work of Art Today: Benjamin and the Machinic Phylum
Posted: October 27, 2008 in Benjamin, Cinema, Ecology of Sensation, Method, New Media, Perception, Representation, SwarmsTags: affect, aura, Benjamin, Deleuze, machinic phylum, New Media, RFID, shock, Swarms, technology, video games
We will begin here with Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” (Second Version of 1936). (I’m not going to justify using this version except to say that there are aspects to it that exceed Adorno’s policing of Walter!) W.J.T. Mitchell has clarified the genealogy that ties Benjamin’s “Artwork” [...]
On Bergson’s Pure Duration and Suzuki’s Sunyata-Tathata
Posted: June 28, 2008 in Bergson, Brain, Causality, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, Freedom, Method, Nietzsche, Perception, Representation, Succession, Time, ZenTags: affect, Bergson, duration, intensity, Suzuki, temporality, Zen
Bergson writes in Time and Free Will: “To say that the same inner causes will reproduce the same effects is to assume that the same cause can appear a second time on the stage of consciousness. Now, if duration is what we say, deep seated psychic states are radically heterogeneous to each other, and it is impossible that any two of them [...]
