Author : Dr Ben Anderson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472437780
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Book Synopsis Encountering Affect by : Dr Ben Anderson
Download or read book Encountering Affect written by Dr Ben Anderson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to understand the interrelationships between affective life and a range of contemporary political transformations. In Encountering Affect, Ben Anderson explores why understanding affect matters and offers one account of affective life that hones in on the different ways in which affects are ordered. Intervening in debates around non-representational theories, he argues that affective life is always-already ‘mediated’ - 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.