Pages tagged Affect address pre-personal forces, intensities, and capacities that shape experience before they resolve into named emotions or conscious states. Affect operates at the level of bodily potential — the capacity to act and be acted upon — and is distinct from feeling or emotion in this usage.
Related tags: political-theory, critical-theory, relationality.
External alignment: affect theory in cultural studies (Massumi, Ahmed, Berlant), process philosophy, and the philosophy of embodiment.