Traversals of Affect

On Jean-François Lyotard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard’s corpus and accounts for Lyotard's crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect. Highlighting the importance of affect in Lyotard’s philosophy, this work offers a unique contribution to both affect theory and the reception of Lyotard.Affect indeed traverses Lyotard’s philosophical corpus in various ways and under various names: “figure” or “the figural” in Discourse, Figure, “unbound intensities” in his “libidinal” writings, “the feeling of the différend” in The Differend, “affect” and “infantia” in his later writings. Across the span of his work, Lyotard insisted on the intractability of affect, on what he would later call the “differend” between affect and articulation. The singular awakening of sensibility, affect both traverses and escapes articulation, discourse, and representation. Lyotard devoted much of his attention to the analysis of this traversal of affect in and through articulation, its transpositions, translations, and transfers. This volume explores Lyotard’s account of affect as it traverses the different fields encompassed by his writings (philosophy, the visual arts, the performing arts, literature, music, politics, psychoanalysis as well as technology and post-human studies).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-04-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:603 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474257886

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Julie Gaillard is a doctoral candidate in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University, and an Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellow at Morehouse College. She is preparing a dissertation on proper names, referentiality and mediality in French literature and arts at the turn of the twenty-first century.Claire Nouvet is associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University. She is the co-editor of Minima Memoria: In the Wake of Jean-François Lyotard (Stanford, 2007), the author of Enfances Narcisse (Galilée, 2009), Abélard et Héloïse: la passion de la maîtrise (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2009), and the editor of Literature and the Ethical Question (Yale French Studies, 1991).Mark Stoholski is a Mellon/ACLS dissertation completion fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University and a candidate at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute. He is preparing a dissertation on affect via the ancient sophists and their reception in modern literature and psychoanalysis.

Recensioner i media

This collection of essays by globally acknowledged experts and newer voices in the field will doubtless set the tone for a rediscovery and reappraisal of Lyotard's considerable contributions to affect theory and its applications. More fundamentally, it sketches a performative metaphilosophy through its encounter with a thinker who enacts philosophy as a perpetual, precarious traversal.

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List of ContributorsIntroduction Claire Nouvet, Julie Gaillard, & Mark Stoholski1. Affect: An Unarticulated PhraseApathemata, Mark StoholskiFor “Emma” , Claire Nouvet2. Affect in the Work of Art and in CommentaryPragmatics and Affect in Art and Commentary, Ashley WoodwardAnamnesis, Anne TomicheLyotard's Gesture, Kas SaghafiNo Place for Complacency: The Resistance of Gesture, Kiff Bamford3. Affect as FigureIntroduction. Before Affect: Elaborating The Figural, Julie Gaillard Following Lyotard's Lines: Affect and Figure in Guillermo Kuitca's Acoustic Mass VI and Mozart Da-Ponte VIII, Heidi BickisPhilip Guston's Piles, Jana V. Schmidt4. Affect and the Sublime in the Age of New TechnologiesGods, Angels and Puppets: Lyotard's Lessons on Listening, Kirsten Locke Autoaffection and Lyotard's Cinematic Sublime, Erin Obodiac 5. Affect in Postmodern PoliticsA New Kind of Sublime: Lyotard's Affect-Phrase and the 'Begebenheit of Our Time' Peter MilneLyotard on Affect and Media: Or the Postmodern-Version 2.0 Explained by Orwell's 1984Kent Still6. Affect and the Task of ThinkingThe Task of Thinking (in) The Postmodern Space of “The Zone”, Julie GaillardCoups de Grâce, Mark StoholskiImpious Thinking, an Interview with Geoffrey BenningtonBibliographyIndex