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Author Massumi, Brian, author.

Title Politics of affect / Brian Massumi
Published Cambridge : Polity, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 228 pages) : illustration
Contents Navigating movements : interview / by Mary Zournazi -- Of microperception and micropolitics : interview / by Joel McKim -- 'There is no ideology and there never was' : affect, capitalism, and resistance : interview / by Yubraj Aryal -- Affective attunement in the field of catastroph with Erin Manning : interview / by Jonas Fritsch and Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen -- Fields of potential : affective immediacy, anxiety, and the necessities of life -- With Erin Manning : interview / by Christoph Brunner -- What a body can do : interview / by Arno Boehler
Summary '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. Adventure: far from being enclosed in the interiority of a subject, affect concerns an immediate participation in the events of the world. It is about intensities of experience. What is politics made of, if not adventures of encounter? What are encounters, if not adventures of relation? The moment we begin to speak of affect, we are already venturing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Affect (Psychology)
Political psychology.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Affect (Psychology)
Political psychology
Affekt
Politische Psychologie
Affekter.
Politisk psykologi.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780745689838
0745689833
9780745689852
074568985X