Elena del Rio
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most everything
Adrian, I have some comments that are about different things I've been thinking, not necessarily the last Gaga stream. They're also about things said all over this discussion by Paul and Patricia, or suggested in Saviro's book. I've be ... -
most everything part 2
As I was saying, of course affects, in the sense of flows and movements of forces, can be used in the direction of colonizing, territorializing, repressing, or whatever. One thinks of the highly emotive crowds of the third Reich, the explosive encounters ... -
one last thing - and thank you
This is what I meant all along. I'm borrowing Claire Colebrook's words because she says it very precisely: "There is nothing radical per se about affect, but the thought of affect--the power of philosophy or true thinking to pass beyond aff ... -
post-cinematic effects
Hi Paul. Great clip! I wanted to respond to some things in your post that made me think of other things. I totally agree that affects cannot be part of a prescriptive system and that in cinema they work dependent on whoever is watching and the predominant ... -
RESISTANT AFFECT
Hi Karin. I will try to reply to your two comments beginning here. Thank you for such a rush of ideas that literally jump off from the page. The clip that I posted is part of an 18 minute film that a friend and I put together some 5 years ago. The idea of ... -
RESISTANT AFFECT CONTINUED
Lynch's cinema for me is somewhere between the cinematic and the post-cinematic. One of the features Steve aligns with the post-cinematic is the absence of an 'absolute, pre-existing space.' Especially in his last films, Lynch never constru ... -
panpsychism and the image
This gets me interested in reading Whitehead and Shaviro on Whitehead. I wasn't thinking of the concept of panpsychism itself, but more of the concept of 'subjectless subjectivities', which in many ways I think is similar. (in fact, Bains m ... -
the exhaustion of affect theory
thank you, karin and michael for your thought-provoking comments. there are many things to say about this topic and the questions you raise. jameson's 'waning of affect' makes sense if one thinks of affect as emotion or feeling in the tradi ... -
the exhaustion of affect theory (part 2)
Coming back to other points you make, I am not familiar with Ruth Leys' argument against affect theory, but thank you for sending the link. It will be interesting to read. All I can say, without having read it, is that affect for me represents the on ... -
metabolic affect
Hi Shane. Thank you for all your comments split into two parts, which totally resonate with what I was talking about. I find the metabolism idea very apt to describe affective processes. I am also in total sync with your comment on how we need to make the ...