Spinoza and the Affective Turn: A Return to the Philosophical Origins of Affect

Robinson, Bradley; Kutner, Mel

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“…Analysis is concerned with the relational and affective capacities of these assemblages as they emerge through people’s exercise practices performed in the home and surrounding spaces. Affect here is taken from Spinozian (Robinson and Kutner, 2019) and Deleuze (1992) thinking to refer to the generative forces or intensities produced when bodies encounter one another. While these intensities are often felt as corporeal, the body here is not limited to the human fleshly body but is extended out into more-than-human entities and gatherings (Barad, 2007; Braidotti, 2019).…”

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Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis

Clark

Lupton

2021

Convergence

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The implementation of physical distancing measures and lockdowns across the globe to control the spread of COVID-19 has led to the home becoming a focal point of exercise and fitness activities for many people. A plethora of digital tools were hastily assembled to help people workout at home or in spaces close to home: including apps with workout suggestions, online videos and livestreamed fitness classes. In this article, we draw on our empirical material collected through semi-structured interviews and virtual ethnographic home tours with Australian adults to explore the ‘pandemic fitness assemblages’ generated with and through their improvised pandemic fitness practices inside and outside their homes. These materials illustrate how bodies, digital and non-digital technologies, and place and space came together and help to surface the affects, sensations and embodiments that emerged. We describe how people’s re-imagined fitness practices contributed to daily routines, transformed the atmospheres of the home and yielded affective experiences of escape. To do so, we think with sociospatial and feminist materialism theoretical frameworks that emphasise the generative relationships emerging between human and more-than-human forces and entities. Our analysis further illuminates the situatedness and relationality of these heterogeneous forces and considers how they come to matter within the broader sociomaterial context of COVID-19.

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Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis

Clark

Lupton

2021

Convergence

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“…Critical/vital/feminist new materialist and new empiricist literature (Bennett 2010; Braidotti 2019; Clough 2009; Stewart 2007) helped me understand how my felt sense of creative flow pointed to subtle affective constellations beyond my self—to the immanent potential of digital materials. My felt senses related to “an ability to affect and be affected,” Brian Massumi’s (1987, xvi) deceptively simple definition of affect , traced to Spinoza through Deleuze (Robinson & Kutner 2019) and so commonly used it often goes unquoted (e.g., Bozalek et al 2021, 850; Gale & Wyatt 2019, 566; Gershon 2013, 258). My experiences resonated with scholars who, drawing on this philosophical lineage, describe affect as a “preconscious … pre‐individual” force, “a capacity for activation” (Clough 2009, 48) not confined to human actors or intentions.…”

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Wholehearted Participation: Attuning to Affect and Immanence in a Virtual Field

Perry

2022

Anthropology and Humanism

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Diving into a virtual field in response to , my orientation to ethnographic inquiry and writing changed as I joined the ranks of thousands of editors worldwide in contributing to the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Honing practices for participating in this dynamic virtual field attuned me to felt senses of flow and more-than-human connections that I relate to posthuman concepts of affect and immanence. The essay concludes with potential implications for embracing wholehearted participation as a method. [digital methods, felt sense, more-than-human subjectivity, participation as method, virtual spaces] Why does this writing feel so different from writing elsewhere and other types of writing? Why do I feel so buoyant and lose track of time?Reviewing notes written since COVID-19 hit and I began exploring a virtual field I had long found intriguing, my own words jump out at me. In early 2020, Wikipedia, the global collaborative authorship experiment and free online encyclopedia, lured me as a potential source of organized, fairly reliable information on the novel virus beginning to wreak havoc and heartache worldwide. I quickly learned that pursuing my intention to study Wikipedia's inner workings would require my active participation. My engagement produced felt senses of flow and more-than-human connections that changed my thinking about ethnographic writing and practice. Personal Felt Sense of FlowI know there are people here logging in from across the world to contribute. I see their comments and debates about specific articles on the corresponding Talk pages. But I know they connect to conduct more coordinated collaboration. So, where else are they?After editing coronavirus-related articles, I longed to write about other topics and connect with other editors. Researching Wikipedia awakened me to the encyclopedia's persistent gender issues and the efforts of Wikipedia communities, like Women in Red and Art+Feminism, to combat gendered representations of women, increase the number of biographical articles about women,

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“…Yet affect may also emerge as horror and fear. As Robinson and Kutner (2019) argue, there is a tendency in the literature to posit affect as always joyful and affirmative, but this is not always so. There was a living sense of European history in this university: 'In Europe we know what happens when you lose humanism.…”

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A humanist university in a posthuman world: relations, responsibilities, and rights

Quinn

2021

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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This paper explores the entanglement of humanism and posthumanism within the Western European University, focusing on ethical implications and the role of the university in protecting the marginalised. To illustrate its arguments, it draws on a small study conducted in an ancient Italian university which specialises in Humanities and Social Sciences. The paper focuses on two key knotty issues: relationships between university aspirations to posthumanism and the colonial legacies of humanism, and the implications of holding on to humanism as a guarantor of human rights for marginalised people. It concludes by discussing the limitations of a posthuman ethics of responsibility and proposes instead a posthuman ethics of rights for the university.

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Spinoza and the Affective Turn: A Return to the Philosophical Origins of Affect

Cited by 28 publications

References 10 publications

Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis

Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis

Wholehearted Participation: Attuning to Affect and Immanence in a Virtual Field

A humanist university in a posthuman world: relations, responsibilities, and rights

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