Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions

by Dr Ben Anderson

In Encountering Affect, Ben Anderson explores why understanding affect matters and offers one account of affective life that hones in the different ways in which affects are ordered. Intervening in debates around non-representational theories, he argues that affective life is always-already OCymediatedOCO - the never finished product of apparatuses, encounters and conditions. Through a wide range of examples including dread-debility-dependency in torture, ordinary hopes, and precariousness, Anderson shows the significance of affect for understanding life today."

203 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Kai]

unexpectedly a really great intervention rather than simply a guidebook.