Affect Disposition(ing)
- The “affective turn” has been primarily concerned not with what affect is, but what it does. This article focuses on yet another shift towards how affect gets organized, i.e., how it is produced, classified, and controlled. It proposes a genealogical as well as a critical approach to the organization of affect and distinguishes between several “affect disposition(ing) regimes”—meaning paradigms of how to interpret and manage affects, for e.g., encoding them as byproducts of demonic possession, judging them in reference to a moralistic framework, or subsuming them under an industrial regime. Bernard Stiegler’s concept of psychopower will be engaged at one point and expanded to include social media and affective technologies, especially Affective Computing. Finally, the industrialization and cybernetization of affect will be contrasted with poststructuralist interpretations of affects as events.
Author details: | Bernd BöselORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i3.1460 |
ISSN: | 2183-2439 |
Title of parent work (English): | Media and Communication |
Subtitle (English): | a genealogical approach to the organization and regulation of emotions |
Publisher: | Cogitatio Press |
Place of publishing: | Lisbon |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2018/09/11 |
Publication year: | 2018 |
Release date: | 2022/03/17 |
Tag: | Affective Computing; affect; disposition; emotions; event; eventology; genealogy; psychopower; theory |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 7 |
First page: | 15 |
Last Page: | 21 |
Funding institution: | Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftGerman Research Foundation (DFG); Open Access Publishing Fund of University of Potsdam |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Künste und Medien |
DDC classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |