Traversals of affect : on Jean-François Lyotard / edited by Julie Gaillard, Claire Nouvet, and Mark Stoholski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaillard, Julie, editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy.

Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998.

Lyotard, Jean-François.

Affect (Psychology).

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard's corpus and accounts for Lyotard's crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect. Highlighting the importance of affect in Lyotard's philosophy, this work offers a unique contribution to both affect theory and the reception of Lyotard. Affect indeed traverses Lyotard's philosophical corpus in various ways and under various names: "figure" or "the figural" in Discourse, Figure, "unbound intensities" in his "libidinal" writings, "the feeling of the diff rend" in The Differend, "affect" and "infantia" in his later writings. Across the span of his work, Lyotard insisted on the intractability of affect, on what he would later call the "differend" between affect and articulation. The singular awakening of sensibility, affect both traverses and escapes articulation, discourse, and representation. Lyotard devoted much of his attention to the analysis of this traversal of affect in and through articulation, its transpositions, translations, and transfers. This volume explores Lyotard's account of affect as it traverses the different fields encompassed by his writings (philosophy, the visual arts, the performing arts, literature, music, politics, psychoanalysis as well as technology and post-human studies)."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction / Claire Nouvet, Julie Gaillard and Mark Stoholski

Section I Affect: An Unarticulated Phrase. Chapter 1. Apathēmata / Mark Stoholski ; Chapter 2. For "Emma" / Claire Nouvet

Section II Affect in the Work of Art and in Commentary. Chapter 3. Pragmatics and Affect in Art and Commentary / Ashley Woodward ; Chapter 4. Anamnesis / Anne Tomiche ; Chapter 5. Lyotard's Gesture / Kas Saghafi ; Chapter 6. No Place for Complacency : The Resistance of Gesture / Kiff Bamford

Section III Affect as Figure. Chapter 7. Introduction

Before Affect : Elaborating the Figural / Julie Gaillard ; Chapter 8. Following Lyotard's Lines : Affect and Figure in Guillermo Kuitca's Acoustic Mass VI and Mozart Da-Ponte VIII / Heidi Bickis ; Chapter 9. Philip Guston's Piles / Jana V. Schmidt

Section IV Affect and the Sublime in the Age of New Technologies. Chapter 10. Gods, Angels, and Puppets : Lyotard's Lessons on Listening / Kirsten Locke ; Chapter 11. Autoaffection and Lyotard's Cinematic Sublime / Erin Obodiac ; Section V Affect in Postmodern Politics. Chapter 12. A New Kind of Sublime : Lyotard's Affect-Phrase and the "Begebenheit of Our Time" / Peter Milne ; Chapter 13. Lyotard on Affect and Media : Or the Postmodern-Version 2.0 Explained by Orwell's 1984 / Kent Still

Section VI Affect and the Task of Thinking. Chapter 14. The Task of Thinking (in) The Postmodern Space of "The Zone" / Julie Gaillard ; Chapter 15. Coups de Grâce / Mark Stoholski ; Chapter 16. Impious Thinking : An Interview with Geoffrey Bennington / Mark Stoholski and Julie Gaillard

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474257909

1474257909

9781474257916

1474257917

9781474257893

1474257895

OCLC:

944187065