Böcker av Marie-Luise Angerer

Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. This book features leading scholars who explore the temporal aspects of affect through the perspectives of philosophy, music, film, media, and art, as well as technology and neurology.

Desire is a term often used in conjunction with the subject. This desire is directed towards the real, which is defined as the generic core of the linguistic order. As a result of the focus on affect, the three termsdesire, the subject, the realhave been fundamentally shaken up and called into question. Affect, in various forms, is now a matter of concern across a wide range of disciplines including neuroscience, psychology, the humanities, and social sciences. All of these fields have a declared interest in affect, in emotions and sensations, in pathos, passions, and the senses.Desire After Affect argues that this affective euphoria cannot be explained solely in terms of a repression of language, logos, and reason. It argues that the affective turn is symptomatic of a fundamental shift in modes of thinking about the human condition. It explores what this means for the human and the posthuman, animal and machine, and calls for a new theory of subjectivation, a philosophy of media affect.