"By affect I understand the affections of the body, by which the power of acting of the body itself is increased, diminished, helped, or hindered, together with the ideas of these affections." B. Spinoza, Ethics p.98
"In Networks, Affect is not emotion... Affect is networked, becomes distributed, and is detached from its anthropomorphic locus in the individual. In a dynamic network the individual is constituted through the circulation of the affects" E. Thacker, Networks, Swarms, Multitudes
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nice... i 've been thinking since i read your post if those two quotes are on the same line of thinking or not... i guess they are... but then i am not sure, i am still strangling with Thacker and Galloway...
most probably you already know this...
Hi Dimitri, apologies for the belated response. I've just found out about your comment. The only thing I can argue is that network should be conceived more as an assemblage than an equivalent of the spatialized device of the graph theory. I will have though a second thought on the fact that those two quotes might not sharing the same line of thinking and I will revisit definitely once again that famous lecture on Spinoza.
However, what poses you hesitant to attempt the link between the two quotes? is it more on the terminology of the affect or Thacker's and especially Galloway's work on networks? I would be very interested to know...
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