Description
Book Synopsis'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth.
Trade ReviewBrian Massumi wants to write a serious play of life by emphasizing the many different roles of affect. In these interviews, he sets out that project in compelling detail, adding yet more evidence that the enactive mapping of affect pays some remarkable conceptual dividends.
Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick
"A politics of affect what might that mean, given that we are completely immersed in affects? Spinoza and Deleuze have pressed us too forcefully into that particular sea. Massumi teaches us carefully how to swim in it. Not only a politics but also a practice of affect a form of life."
Antonio Negri
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Navigating Movements
Mary Zournazi
2. Of Microperception and Micropolitics
Joel McKim
3. Ideology and Escape
Yubraj Aryal
4. Affective Attunement in the Field Of Catastrophe
Erin Manning, Jonas Fritsch and Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen
5. Immediation
Erin Manning, Christoph Brunner
6. What a Body Can Do
Arno Boehler
In Lieu of a Conclusion
