Encountering affect: capacities, apparatuses, conditions

Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to understand the interrelationships between affective life and a range of contemporary political transformations. In Encountering Affect, Ben Anderson explo...

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Main Author: Anderson, Ben 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge 2016
Edition:First issued in paperback
Series:An Ashgate Book
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to understand the interrelationships between affective life and a range of contemporary political transformations. In Encountering Affect, Ben Anderson explores why understanding affect matters and offers one account of affective life that hones in on the different ways in which affects are ordered. Intervening in debates around non-representational theories, he argues that affective life is always-already 'mediated' - the never finished product of apparatuses, encounters and conditions. Through a wide range of examples including dread-debility-dependency in torture, ordinary hopes, and precariousness, Anderson shows the significance of affect for understanding life today
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten [171]-187
Physical Description:viii, 194 Seiten
ISBN:9781138248489
9780754670247

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