Acknowledgments/ Foreword by Patricia T. Clough/ Introduction/ 1 Affective Troubles in Media and Art/ 2 Human / Posthuman/Transhuman/ 3 Affect versus Drive, or the Battle over Representation/ 4 Virtual Sex and Other Metamorphoses/5 Sexualizing Affect/ Postscript: A New Affective Organization/ Bibliography/ Index
Marie-Luise Angerer is professor of Media and Cultural Studies at
the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. The focus of her research is on
media technology, affect, neuroscientific reformulations of desire
and sexuality. Her most recent publications include Choreography,
Media, Gender (edited with Y. Hardt and A. Weber; diaphanes, 2013),
and Timing of Affect (edited with B. Bösel and M. Ott; diaphanes
and University of Chicago Press, 2014).
Nicholas Grindell has been living and working in Berlin as a
translator since 1993, specializing in the history and theory of
the arts. Recent translations include books by Jörg Heiser,
Isabelle Graw and Manfred Hermes (all Sternberg Press) and a volume
of poetry by Monika Rinck (Burning Deck Press).
Desire After Affect offers a strong analysis how affect has been
placed at the centre of posthuman theory. Angerer’s take is
reflective, clear and inspiring in how it shows the nuances of the
concept that marks a historical shift from psychoanalysis to
neurosciences. The book is of high relevance to scholars in media,
contemporary arts and cultural theory.
*Jussi Parikka, Professor in Technological Culture and Aesthetics,
University of Southampton*
Forget the cognitive revolution, think affect. Marie-Luise Angerer
is very convincing in her study of affect and desire, describing
what most of us are aware of without being able to explain it
(which is a perfect illustration of the book): subjectivity and
eroticism are changing, art and media are showing the way. Based on
a very thorough study, drawing on authors ranging from Helmholtz to
Malabou, with Freud, Lacan, Deleuze and Braidotti in between, this
book presents the reader with an uncanny mirror
image. ‘I am what the cyborg feels’ might become the new
cogito.
*Paul Verhaeghe, Head of the Department of Psychoanalysis and
Clinical Consulting at Ghent University and author of What About
Me?*
Desire After Affect represents a major intervention into one of the
leading debates in the Humanities today. Translating and extending
the original German version published in 2007, this English edition
arrives at a timely moment of critical reflection on the so-called
‘affective turn’, which looks increasingly like an epistemological
break. If sexuality was diagnosed by Foucault as the organising
discourse of human subjectivity in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, Marie-Luise Angerer examines how and why ‘affect’ has
become its replacement in the twenty-first. Rather than
running towards the bright lights of the promise of affect, as so
many other have done, Angerer situates its discursive legacies
within an unlikely convergence of very different theoretical
frameworks, cautioning us to consider some of its more troubling
implications. Displaying a breath-taking range of knowledge of
critical theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, this book speaks to
a significant challenge to the terms of knowledge production across
the arts and the sciences. Delivered with clarity and precision,
yet always expansive in its terms of reference, Angerer’s book is a
welcome intervention into this contested field of enquiry.
*Jackie Stacey, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and
Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts
and Languages (CIDRAL) at the University of Manchester*
Each chapter of Desire After Affect analyses the dispositif of
affect from a different angle. The somatic turn, the
human/posthuman/transhuman debate, neurobiology, sex, the digital
and the unconscious are woven together in the attempt to argue for
the replacing of the sexual subject altogether in favour of affect,
and the uncovering of desire ‘after’ affect as momentary time lag
or temporal gap […]The temporal gap of reaction – the ‘moment of a
half-second’ – is Angerer’s locus of desire ‘after’ affect, and the
conceptual work done to reach this climactic point is impressive
indeed.
*Radical Philosophy*
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