Examines the place and function of affect throughout Deleuze’s work
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The first edited volume dedicated expressly to affect in Deleuze
Re-examines Deleuze’s status as a pillar of affect theory
Brings together 11 established and emerging scholars from different fields
Situates affect at the heart of the critical humanities
Includes both genealogical analyses and practical applications to new terrains
Assesses affect in relation to climate catastrophe, fascism, feminism, global capitalism, race, sexual difference and other pressing issues
Deleuze and Affect brings together work from emerging and established scholars to address and reassess the role of affect in Deleuze’s work and its legacy in the critical humanities. Affects are not merely new sensations; they are, more radically, new sensibilities. They therefore have the potential to redefine the very conditions of experience, to open new relations to the world, and to reshape each discipline.
The multidisciplinary contributors to this volume place affect squarely at the intersection of diverse fields and disciplines from philosophy and literature, visual studies and film studies, art and architecture, through to politics and economics.
In an age in which the sciences unlock more and more secrets of a body that is also, paradoxically, becoming more and more precarious, this volume examines the stakes and spectrum of what it means 'to affect’ and 'to be affected'.
Part I: Spinoza and the Problem of Affection 1. The Evolution of Deleuze’s Concept of Affect Daniel W. Smith 2. In God or in Chaos: The Difference between Spinoza’s and Deleuze’s Conceptions of Beatitude Leonard Lawlor 3. Deleuze and the Many Faces of Affect: An Epistemo-Ethical Account of What Affects Do and Why We Need Them Janae Sholtz
Part II: Politics of Affect 4. The Passion of Abolition: Deleuze and Guattari and the Affective Politics of Fascism Aidan Tynan 5. The Production of Reality: Deleuze & Work, via Affected Labour Alexia Cameron
Part III: Affects Critical and Clinical 6. The Birth of the Clinical in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze Patricio Landaeta 7. Deleuze and Bergman: Persona and the Affection-Image Richard Rushton 8. Affective Dissonance and Architectural (Dis)Repair Hélène Frichot
Part IV: Surfaces, Inscriptions, Affects 9. The End of the Book and the Beginning of Affect Claire Colebrook 10. Between Derrida and Deleuze: Bodies without Organs Nibras Chehayed 11. Deleuze’s Khôratic Fingers James Martell
D. J. S. Cross is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His first book, Deleuze and the Problem of Affect, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. He has translated works by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Catherine Malabou and Pablo Oyarzun.
