Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement

Russell Duvernoy develops a speculative concept of ecological attunement, which suggests that attention is ontologically creative and feeling and affect are ontologically prior to the consolidation of lived subjectivity. This challenges prevailing habits with regard to subjectivity and unfolds amidst intensifying ecological crisis and accompanying social, political, and existential turbulence. The study explores the implications of this concept in relation to other speculative trends in recent philosophy.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 31 December 2020
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Russell Duvernoy explores the metaphysical connections between Whitehead and Deleuze, focusing on their impact on attention and affect. He proposes an altered existential orientation called ecological attunement, which suggests that attention is ontologically creative and feeling and affect are ontologically prior to the consolidation of lived subjectivity. This speculative concept challenges prevailing habits regarding subjectivity and is particularly relevant in the context of intensifying ecological crisis and accompanying social, political, and existential turbulence. The study draws on recent work by Massumi, Stengers, Debaise, and Williams to explore their work in relation to other speculative trends in recent philosophy, including new materialisms, posthumanisms, speculative realism, and object-oriented-ontology.

Weight: 500g
Dimension: 162 x 240 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474466912