The Evolution of Affect Theory
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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May 2019Paperback
9781108732116
75 pages
230 × 153 × 5 mm
0.13kg
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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.