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The Evolution of Affect Theory

The Evolution of Affect Theory

The Evolution of Affect Theory

The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power
Author:
Donovan O. Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania
Published:
May 2019
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9781108732116

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    Across the humanities, a set of interrelated concepts - excess, becoming, the event - have gained purchase as analytical tools for thinking about power. Some versions of affect theory rely on Gilles Deleuze's concept of 'becoming', proposing that affect is best understood as a field of dynamic novelty. Reconsidering affect theory's relationship with life sciences, Schaefer argues that this procedure fails as a register of the analytics of power. By way of a case study, this work concludes with a return to the work of Saba Mahmood, in particular her 2005 study of the women's mosque movement in Cairo, Politics of Piety.

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    Table of Contents

    • Introduction: music without words
    • 1. The Deleuzian dialect of affect theory
    • 2. Unbecoming: criticisms of the Deleuzian dialect
    • 3. The animality of affect
    • 4. Economies of dignity: reconsidering the mosque movement
    • Conclusion: the entertainment.
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    • Donovan O. Schaefer , University of Pennsylvania