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The Evolution of Affect Theory

The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power

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ID19927232
AuthorsDonovan O Schaefer, D Schaefer (0000-0002-2385-1946, California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author)
Year2019
Publication date2019-05-30
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueEvolution of Affect Theory (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108765343
OpenAlexW4233860195
Open LibraryOL34739805M
ISBN9781108765343
LanguageEN
Citations received62
References cited45

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

Affect theory · Analytics · Data science · Epistemology · Novelty · Piety · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Engineering · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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