Desire After Affect

178 Pages·2014·1.55 MB·English

by  Marie-Luise Angerer

Desire After Affect

Desire After Affect
Marie-Luise Angerer
Translated by Nicholas Grindell
Foreword by Patricia T. Clough
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Desireafteraffect/Marie-LuiseAngerer;translatedbyNicholasGrindell;forewordby
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
PatriciaT.Clough
Introduction xv
1 AffectiveTroublesinMediaandArt 1
2 Human|Posthuman|Transhuman 25
3 AffectVersusDrive,ortheBattleoverRepresentation 49
4 VirtualSexandOtherMetamorphoses 71
5 SexualizingAffect 87
6 Postscript:ANewAffectiveOrganization 115
Bibliography 135
Index 147
v

Acknowledgments
My work on Desire After Affect drew on conversations with col-
leaguesandstudentsatvarioustimesandplaces.AlthoughIcannot
give an exhaustive list here, I am grateful to them all. I would,
however, like to make specific mention of my discussions with
Bernd Bösel, Michaela Ott, Anna Tuschling and Rolf Grossmann,
who prepared and ran the international symposium Timing of Af-
fect1 with me. The workshop Re-working Affect at Berlin’s ICI,2 to
which I was invited by Brigitte Bargetz, also encouraged me to re-
thinkthepoliticalandsocietaldimensionsofaffect.Iamgratefulto
Claus Pias and Martin Warnke, who in the winter term of 2013
invited me as senior fellow to the Institute for Advanced Study in
“MediaCulturesofComputerSimulation”atLeuphanaUniversity
inLüneburg,whereIwasabletobeginmyworkonthefinalchap-
ter. Thanks to an invitation from Chris Salter, Brian Massumi, and
Erin Manning, I was able to continue this work at Hexagram and
SenseLab in Montreal in the spring of 2014. My special thanks to
BerndBöselforhis“insistentclosereading”ofthefinalchapterand
to Patricia T. Clough for her wonderful foreword. Paul Patton and
MoiraGatensencouragedmetopushforwardwiththeprojectofan
English edition, as well as established the contact to Rowman &
LittlefieldInternational.ThankstoSarahCampbell,whosupported
theprojectwithinterestandcommitmentfromtheoutset,andespe-
cially to Martina O’Sullivan, who managed the project within the
CulturalStudiesseries.Abigthank-youtoNicholasGrindellforall
his workon theEnglishversionofthebook,andtoStephenZepke
for his constructive copy-editing. Thanks, once again, to Michael
Heitz of diaphanes for his support. And finally, the entire project
withallitshighsandlowswasaccompaniedbyRolfWalz,whomI
wouldliketothankhereonceagainforhishelpandpatience.
Marie-LuiseAngerer
Berlin,June2014
vii
viii Acknowledgments
NOTES
1. Timing of Affect, international symposium, Academy of Media Arts Co-
logne, 31 May–1 June 2013, www.khm.de/nocache/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/
veranstaltung/article/2654-timing-of-affect-internationales-symposium/nCall/
136(retrieved8June2014).
2. Reworking Affect: Queer-Feminist Engagements, workshop, 27 June 2013,
www.ici-berlin.org/de/event/512(retrieved8June2014).