Bridging the Affective Gap - An Affective Transversal Analysis of the Paradigmatic Form of Intensification
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2024-07-03
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Contemporary scholarship on affect lacks consensus on what the concept specifically means or in what domain it should be studied. Certain scholars stress that affects are material in nature, whereas others argue that they arise out of abstract processes. I argue that both viewpoints are limited in understanding the complexities of contemporary reality. Consequently, I argue for an expanded framework of affective inquiry which integrates both materialist and ‘abstract’ approaches into a broader and more coherent framework. The primary focus of this framework is bringing into view if – and how - affective entities display paradigmatic behaviours in relation to specific processes. I do so through the notion of ‘affective transversality,’ which brings forth how heterogeneously composed interfaces display a paradigmatic form of behaviour in relation to the process of intensification. This analysis serves as an example of how the tools in the toolbox of affective inquiry can be expanded to cover more objects, entities, processes and ontological registers in the analysis of reality.
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Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen