Affect

Question 1

Brian Massumi

Answer 1

• Vast majority of the world’s sensations are certainly nonconscious
• Different from Freudian unconscious
• Perspectives of the flesh
• Influence, intensity, impact
• The strength or duration of the image’s effect

Question 2

Definition

Answer 2

• Seen as the potential, a bodily capacity to affect and be affected
• It is embodied in the automatic reaction manifested in the skin, on the surface of the body and in the heartbeat
• Not exclusively human body

Question 3

Emotion vs affect

Answer 3

• Emotion as recognised affect and identified intensity
• Emotion is sociolinguistic fixing of the quality of an experience - it is intensity owned and recognized
• Affect nondiscursive?

Question 4

Navaro

Answer 4

• Ruins
• Material remains or artefacts of destruction
• Subjectivities and residual affects
• Linger, like a hangover, in the aftermath of war or violence

Question 5

Deleuze and Guattari

Answer 5

• Affects are not feelings - sensual intensities that may move through human bodies, but that do not necessarily emerge from them
• Affect is non-discursive - pre or extra-linguistic
• Hazy and atmostpheric - non-discursive sensation which a space or environment generates

Question 6

Kathleen Stewart

Answer 6

• Affects do not have to await definition, classification or rationalisation before they exert palpable pressures
• They work not through meaning per se, but rather in the way that they pick up density and texture as they move through bodies, dreams, dramas and social worldings of all kinds