Desire after affect

by Angerer, Marie-Luise

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Title Statements

Full title :Desire after affect / Marie-Luise Angerer ; translated by Nicholas Grindell ; foreword by Patricia Clough.

Summary

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 terms - desire, the subject, the real - have 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. This book 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Place of Publication:Lanham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

Notes

Translated from the German.

The Physical Object

Description:1 volume ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781783481309, 1783481307, 9781783481316, 1783481315
oclc:on1063324080
LC Classification:BF511
Dewey Decimal:128.37

Foreword / Patricia T. Clough -- Affective troubles in media and art -- Human, posthuman, transhuman -- Affect versus drive, or the battle over representation -- Virtual sex and other metamorphoses -- Sexualizing affect -- Postscript: A new affective organization.