The Evolution of Affect Theory

Abstract

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.

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Donovan O. Schaefer (2019). The Evolution of Affect Theory. Cambridge University Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108765343

@book{o2019the,
  title  = {The Evolution of Affect Theory},
  author = {Schaefer, Donovan O.},
  year   = {2019},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press eBooks},
  doi    = {10.1017/9781108765343}
}

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