Deleuze and Affect - (Deleuze Connections) by D J S Cross (Hardcover)

About the Book

Examines the place and function of affect throughout Deleuze's work.

Book Synopsis

Deleuze and Affect brings together work from emerging and established scholars to address and reassess the role of affect in Deleuze's work and its legacy in the critical humanities. Affects are not merely new sensations; they are, more radically, new sensibilities. They therefore have the potential to redefine the very conditions of experience, to open new relations to the world, and to reshape each discipline.

The multidisciplinary contributors to this volume place affect squarely at the intersection of diverse fields and disciplines from philosophy and literature, visual studies and film studies, art and architecture, through to politics and economics.

In an age in which the sciences unlock more and more secrets of a body that is also, paradoxically, becoming more and more precarious, this volume examines the stakes and spectrum of what it means 'to affect' and 'to be affected'.

Review Quotes

D. J. S. Cross has brought together the most diverse perspectives on and therefore the most thorough explication of Deleuze's thinking on affect. In considering the onto-epistemology of affect from the political to the clinical, from the metaphysical foundation of identity to the reconceptualisation of the body without organs, this collection of essays dazzles with insight. If Deleuze's writings always have invited us to live and think more creatively, surely there is no more pressing a time than now for that invitation to be offered again. Along with D. J. S Cross's rich and instructive introduction, the essays of Deleuze and Affect generously extend that invitation.--Patricia Clough, City University of New York