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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
Donovan O. Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania
May 2019
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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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    May 2019
    Paperback
    9781108732116
    75 pages
    230 × 153 × 5 mm
    0.13kg
    Available

    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