The Evolution of Affect Theory
The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power
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Part of Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
- Author: Donovan O. Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania
- Date Published: May 2019
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- isbn: 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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- Date Published: May 2019
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108732116
- length: 75 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 5 mm
- weight: 0.13kg
- availability: 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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