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Introduction to Affect Theory: Brian Massumi & Eve Sedgwick

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Is your mind separate from your body? Do you have a feeling of two-ness? Or is your mind part of your body? Or is your mind in control of your body? It seems intuitive, but most appeals to modern science refute this. The mind is made up of neurons, synapsis, chemical compounds – in other words, matter. So is the mind/body divide simply an illusion? Affect Theory is, in part, an attempt to overcome this duality. To synthesise the body and the mind. The idea of affects has a history that goes back to Spinoza’s Ethics, published in 1677. But the affective turn – a more thorough engagement with what affects are – came in the mid-90s from philosophers Brian Massumi and Eve Sedgwick. Affect Theory can, in part, be seen as a move away from the linguistic turn of the mid-20th century, central to which was the idea that language was the primary way we understand the world, and so an engagement with how language is constructed, used and changes should be fundamental to theories about human natur

Introduction to Affect Theory: Brian Massumi & Eve Sedgwick - Then & Now --> Introduction to Affect Theory: Brian Massumi & Eve Sedgwick Is your mind separate from your body? Do you have a feeling of two-ness? Or is your mind part of your body? Or is your mind in control of your body? It seems intuitive, but most appeals to modern science refute this. The mind is made up of neurons, synapsis, chemical compounds – in other words, matter. So is the mind/body divide simply an illusion? Affect Theory is, in part, an attempt to overcome this duality. To synthesise the body and the mind. The id

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