Always More than One

The Collectivity of a Life

Bibliographic Data

ID5087935
AuthorsErin Manning (0000-0003-4522-895X, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume16
Issue1
Pages117-127
Publication date2010-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBody & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1357034x09354128
OpenAlexW2144812834
LanguageEN
Citations received52

This article explores the idea that affect is collective. By emphasizing that affect does not rest in the individual, a theory of affect is foregrounded that is in conversation with Gilbert Simondon's concept of individuation, and, more specifically, the concept of the preindividual. The preindividual, in Simondon, is aligned with what Gilles Deleuze calls 'a life' - the force of living beyond life itself. This force of life, I suggest, is the resonant field of life's outside, the more-than of human life where the body is but one verging surface on the field of experience, where the body is always more than One. The more-than-Oneness of the body is always already collective, cutting as it does between life-welling and life-living. It is here, at this virtual-actual juncture, that the force of affect resides, activating the body-becoming

Aesthetics · Conversation · Epistemology · Individuation · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Communication · Digital Media and Philosophy · Mathematics · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology

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