Donovan O. Schaefer

Evolution of Affect Theory (eBook, PDF)

The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108770613
• Artikelnr.: 66180860

Inhaltsangabe

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.