Desire After Affect [Hardcover]

Desire After Affect offers a strong analysis how affect has been placed at the centre of posthuman theory. Angerers 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.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.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.l3'