Gene & Dave,
D's work is addressing the same problems, (and isn't that difficult to
understand, honest) but puts affect outside the subject as a kind of follow
on from the start point of getting rid of the signifier (a terrible,
terrible, over-simplification, sorry but it's late and this is
Gene:
The common words closest to the typical academic use of “affect” would be
“feeling” or “emotion”.
It’s a common term in psychology. The APA defines it:
> n. any experience of feeling or emotion, ranging from suffering to elation,
> from the simplest to the most complex sensations of
"Affect" is another word that I think started out as psychological jargon and
has become more widespread.
--scott
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Thanks for this, Alistair. I’m trying to determine if “affect” as you explain
it will be useful in my political-economic critique of mass communication,
“Secession From the Broadcast.” It’s the summation of my lifelong commitment to
media-based radical political theory, and I want to reach
I think its increasing use, and framed definition, comes from it's use by
Deleuze & Guattari ,.. Simon O'sullivans paper is the best example I can
think of https://simonosullivan.net/articles/aesthetics-of-affect.pdf But
the original texts, Logic of Sensation, Cinema 1 & 2 and Mille Plateau are
Affection and cinema right away brings to mind the affection-image from Gilles
Deleuze’s cinema studies. Primary developed from Henri Bergson, affection is
the intermediary state of the nervous system between perception and action.
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> On 15 Feb 2020, at 20:37, Gene
I'd bve interested if someone up on the latest in academicese weighs in
with something different, but to me this looks like a standard use of
the word "affect" as a noun. Here is what I take the be the relevant
definition from the OED:
"the outward display of emotion or mood, as manifested by
Academic Frameworkers: I like to keep abreast of trends in academic language,
and I've noticed an increased use of the word “affect” in scholarly papers. It
has become fashionable, but the spin being put on it isn’t clear to me. Could
someone please tell me what “affect” means here for example:
