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Politics of Affect

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

Politics of Affect

By Brian Massumi

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'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth. Adventure: far from being enclosed in the interiority of a subject, affect concerns an immediate participation in the events of the world. It is about intensities of experience. What is politics made of, if not adventures of encounter? What are encounte...Show more

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9780745689814

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2015

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1

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Politics of Affect

Format

Hardcover

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