Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions

by Ben Anderson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138248487
• ISBN13: 9781138248489
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"