The Animality of Affect: Religion, Emotion, and Power

Religion, Emotion, Sensation ◽

10.5422/fordham/9780823285679.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 19-37

Author(s):

Donovan O. Schaefer

Keyword(s):

Human Body ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

This essay argues that the immensely influential concept of affect as unstructured proto-sensation that is primarily associated with Gilles Deleuze and Brian Massumi is insufficient to understand the roles of affect in religion and other formations of power. The Deleuzian approach to affect fails to reckon adequately with the animality of the human body, with its evolutionarily particular bio-architecture that affords it a finitely multiple repertoire of affects. Moving to religion by way of Sylvan Tomkins, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Sara Ahmed, the essay argues that the felt bodily needs and consequent affective economy of which religion is the product hinge on shame and dignity, and it proceeds to illustrate its claim with reference to Saba Mahmood’s analysis of the women’s Mosque Movement in pre-revolutionary Egypt.

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Affect in Critical Studies

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.56 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Brian L. Ott

Keyword(s):

Cultural Studies ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Basic Emotions ◽

Critical Studies ◽

Historical Accounts ◽

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Affect has historically been conceptualized in one of two dominant ways. The first perspective, which has its roots in psychology and neuroscience, tends to view affect as an elemental state. This tradition is reflected in Silvan S. Tomkins’s theory of primary affects and Antonio Damasio’s theory of basic emotions. Recent extensions of this tradition include the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lisa Cartwright, and Teresa Brennan. The second perspective, which is typically associated with developments in philosophy and the humanities, treats affect as an intensive force. This tradition, whose most famous proponent is Gilles Deleuze, is evident in Brian Massumi’s theory of autonomous affect and Nigel Thrift’s non-representational theory. Recent extensions of this tradition tend to emphasize the importance of materiality, or what Jane Bennett has called “thing-power.” A number of scholars working in communication and cultural studies have created a third, hybrid tradition that attempts to bridge or mediate the two dominant historical accounts. This third perspective includes Lawrence Grossberg’s notion of affective investments, Christian Lundberg’s Lacanian-inspired view of affect, Sara Ahmed’s work on the sociality of emotion, and Gernot Böhme’s theory of atmospheres.

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Faciality and Sensation in Hardy's The Return of the Native

PMLA ◽

10.1632/003081206x129648 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 121 (2) ◽

pp. 437-452 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

William A. Cohen

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Model ◽

Physiological Psychology ◽

Human Body ◽

Perceptual Experience ◽

Evolutionary Biology ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

The Self ◽

Deleuze And Guattari ◽

The World ◽

The Face

In Thomas Hardy's fiction, the human body is the untranscendible foundation of putatively ethereal interior entities such as mind and self. The emerging sciences of physiological psychology and evolutionary biology, with which Hardy was familiar, provide a context in which to understand his bodily materialism. Hardy explores these interests in The Return of the Native through a striking emphasis on the faces of characters and landscape and particularly on sensory perceptions–primarily associated with organs located in the face–as means of bringing the world into the human interior and of dissolving distinctions between subjects and objects. Reading Hardy's materialism with the tools provided by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of faciality elucidates both the fiction and the theoretical model, for the writers share an idea of depsychologized character. For Hardy, as for Deleuze and Guattari, experience of the self and the world is fundamentally corporeal, and perceptual experience makes landscape inextricably contiguous with the human. (WAC)

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Introduction: Pedagogy, Feeling, and the Study of Modernism

The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781949979275.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Benjamin D. Hagen

Keyword(s):

Virginia Woolf ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Modernist Studies ◽

Do So ◽

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

This introduction presents the primary argument of The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence: namely, that Woolf and Lawrence worry a lot about teaching and learning and that they do so in languages of feeling, affect, or intensity. The introduction also surveys modernist studies scholarship that addresses pedagogy and education, elaborates the term “sensuous pedagogies,” details the influence of Gilles Deleuze and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on the methods and concerns of the author’s study, previews the respective significance of solitude and relationality to Woolf and Lawrence’s pedagogies, glosses the critical conversations in Woolf and Lawrence studies that the author hopes to join, and clarifies the role of the sixteen “assignments” he plots across the book.

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Microstructural comparison of synthetic bioceramics with natural bioceramics

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100084491 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 49 ◽

pp. 38-39

Author(s):

Shulin Wen ◽

Jingwei Feng ◽

A. Krajewski ◽

A. Ravaglioli

Keyword(s):

Recent Work ◽

Human Body ◽

Human Tissues ◽

Main Constituent ◽

Laboratory Furnace ◽

Chinese Adult ◽

Human Enamel ◽

Biological Compatibility ◽

Synthetic Hydroxyapatite ◽

Synthetic Work

Hydroxyapatite bioceramics has attracted many material scientists as it is the main constituent of the bone and the teeth in human body. The synthesis of the bioceramics has been performed for years. Nowadays, the synthetic work is not only focused on the hydroapatite but also on the fluorapatite and chlorapatite bioceramics since later materials have also biological compatibility with human tissues; and they may also be very promising for clinic purpose. However, in comparison of the synthetic bioceramics with natural one on microstructure, a great differences were observed according to our previous results. We have investigated these differences further in this work since they are very important to appraise the synthetic bioceramics for their clinic application.The synthetic hydroxyapatite and chlorapatite were prepared according to A. Krajewski and A. Ravaglioli and their recent work. The briquettes from different hydroxyapatite or chlorapatite powders were fired in a laboratory furnace at the temperature of 900-1300°C. The samples of human enamel selected for the comparison with synthetic bioceramics were from Chinese adult teeth.

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Study on erythrocytes by SEM photogrammetry (SEMP) technique

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100161187 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 724-725

Author(s):

Tong Wensheng ◽

Lu Lianhuang ◽

Zhang Zhijun

Keyword(s):

Quantitative Analysis ◽

Cell Membrane ◽

Clinical Diagnosis ◽

Human Body ◽

Blood Cells ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Normal Person ◽

Blood Disease ◽

Computation Technique ◽

Important Basis

This is a combined study of two diffirent branches, photogrammetry and morphology of blood cells. The three dimensional quantitative analysis of erythrocytes using SEMP technique, electron computation technique and photogrammetry theory has made it possible to push the study of mophology of blood cells from LM, TEM, SEM to a higher stage, that of SEM P. A new path has been broken for deeply study of morphology of blood cells.In medical view, the abnormality of the quality and quantity of erythrocytes is one of the important changes of blood disease. It shows the abnormal blood—making function of the human body. Therefore, the study of the change of shape on erythrocytes is the indispensable and important basis of reference in the clinical diagnosis and research of blood disease.The erythrocytes of one normal person, three PNH Patients and one AA patient were used in this experiment. This research determines the following items: Height;Length of two axes (long and short), ratio; Crevice in depth and width of cell membrane; Circumference of erythrocytes; Isoline map of erythrocytes; Section map of erythrocytes.

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