Sentient Subjects: Post-humanist Perspectives on Affect

The study investigates the acquisition of the affect idiom in post-humanist thought, exploring the political and ethical implications of deploying affect as a theoretical and artistic category. It connects Spinozas and Tomkinss theories, psychoanalysis, and animal studies, challenging and extending the concepts, vocabulary, compatibility, and attribution of affect.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 134 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The non-cognitive aspects of an individual's life, encompassing feelings, movements, sensations, instincts, automatism, and sentience, have profoundly impacted the understanding of subjectivity, agency, and identity among scholars. This collection delves into the crucial significance of the idiom of affect in the "post-humanist thinking of the subject." It also examines the political and ethical implications arising from the deployment of affect as a theoretical and artistic category.

Collectively, the contributors to this collection chart the diverse terrain of post-humanist scholarship on affect, forging intriguing and occasionally unexpected connections between Spinoza's and Tomkins' theories of affect, the concept of affect and psychoanalysis, and affect and animal studies in art and literature. As a result, the concepts, vocabulary, compatibility, and attribution of affect are expanded and challenged.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367683696