Archive for the ‘ressentiment’ Category

The Politics of Affect: Berlant on Affect and Austerity

Posted: December 27, 2010 in biopower, Deleuze, Diagramming Affective Ethics, Ecology of Sensation, Representation, ressentiment
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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 [...]

Composite Photos

Posted: February 25, 2010 in Becoming, Benjamin, Bergson, Bollywood, Brain, Cinema, Clinamen, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, Method, New Media, Perception, Photography, Photography of Mumbai, Public Sphere, ressentiment, social viscosity, Swarms, Zen
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These photos seem to me to have come together quite by chance, but then they also emerged from patterns of behavior and forms of style, against the backdrop of flows of people, traffic, capital, information. In India today these patterns are emerging through a new ecology of sensation. But I make no claim for these [...]

On Social Viscosities: diagramming the flows of mobile media in India

Posted: February 19, 2010 in Causality, Clinamen, Deleuze, dialectic, Ecology of Sensation, India, Method, Organized Networks, Precarity, ressentiment, social viscosity
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Sensation and its ecologies get us beyond the pleasure-agency / consumption-docility binary that characterizes radical political thought today. This is simply because sensation is not the synthesis of the dialectic, it is not involved ontologically in dialectics at all. Sensation involves the creative mixing of the virtual and the actual. Deleuze writes, “sensation has no [...]