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The Evolution of Affect Theory: The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power (Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses) (in English)
Donovan O. Schaefer (Author)
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Cambridge University Press
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The Evolution of Affect Theory: The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power (Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses) (in English) - Donovan O. Schaefer
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Synopsis "The Evolution of Affect Theory: The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Study of Power (Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses) (in English)"
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.
