Across the humanities, a set of interrelated concepts - excess, becoming, the event - have gained purchase as analytical tools for thinking about power. Some versions of affect theory rely on Gilles Deleuze's concept of 'becoming', proposing that affect is best understood as a field of dynamic novelty. Reconsidering affect theory's relationship with life sciences, Schaefer argues that this procedure fails as a register of the analytics of power. By way of a case study, this work concludes with a return to the work of Saba Mahmood, in particular her 2005 study of the women's mosque movement in Cairo, Politics of Piety.
By:
Donovan O. Schaefer (University of Pennsylvania) Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 230mm,
Width: 153mm,
Spine: 5mm
Weight: 130g ISBN:9781108732116 ISBN 10: 1108732119 Series:Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses Pages: 75 Publication Date:30 May 2019 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: music without words; 1. The Deleuzian dialect of affect theory; 2. Unbecoming: criticisms of the Deleuzian dialect; 3. The animality of affect; 4. Economies of dignity: reconsidering the mosque movement; Conclusion: the entertainment.
