Typing here, now, is a moment of immaterial labor in an economy of affects. so, the conversations around affective labor would say. I’ve been reading some of this work, and wanted to try out some thoughts about affect. But by affect, here, I do not mean emotion, nor even a property particular to bodies or living being, but more abstractly as the “power to act”. Moreover, this “power to act” is not a given property, but is emergent and evoked in complex, dynamic, historically specific assemblages/relations. The affect, as the power to act, is the power to respond to power. Or put slightly differently, the capacity to respond to capacity. Read the rest of this entry »
Working with affect?
22 02 2008Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: affect, assemblage, Deleuze, Negri
Categories : affect, generation