Encountering affect : capacities, apparatuses, conditions / Ben Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Ben, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affect (Psychology).

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Encountering Affect, Ben Anderson explores why understanding affect matters and offers one account of affective life that hones in 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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Affective Life; 1.1 Hope and Other Affects; 1.2 Promises, Imperatives; 1.3 What is Affect?; 1.4 Organising and Mediating Affective Life; 1.5 Problematics: Object-Target, Bodily Capacity, Collective Condition; 2 Apparatuses; 2.1 Object-Targets; 2.2 Manipulation and the Politics of 'Affect Itself'; 2.3 Apparatuses; 2.4 Morale in a State of Total War; 2.5 The Excess of Power; 3 Versions; 3.1 Debility, Dependency, Dread; 3.2 Keep Hope Alive; 3.3 Materialisations; 3.4 'I Love You. You Love Me'; 3.5 Creating Unliveable Life

3.6 The Necessity but Insufficiency of Critique3.7 Afterword: A Dream; 4 The Imbrication of Affect; 4.1 Everything is Affective; 4.2 'Capacities to Affect and be Affected' and Emotions; 4.3 How is Affect Non-Representational?; 4.4 Hope and the Contingency of Affective Life; 4.5 The Imbrication of Affect; 5 Structures of Feeling; 5.1 Affective Conditions; 5.2 Mediation and Collective Moods; 5.3 Structures of Feeling; 5.4 Precarity, Catastrophe and Other Structures of Feeling; 5.5 Structuring Feeling; 6 Affective Atmospheres; 6.1 Atmospheres; 6.2 The Strange Materiality of Atmospheres

6.3 Affective Qualities6.4 Atmos-spheres; 6.5 Atmospheres and Causality; 6.6 Affective Conditions; 7 Mediating Affective Life; 7.1 An Analytics of Affect; 7.2 Mediating Affective Life; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published 2014 by Ashgate Pub.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-138-24848-7

1-317-14400-7

1-315-57944-8

1-4724-3777-2

9781315579443

OCLC:

880877976