In Massumi’s controversial formulation, affect and affection emphasize the subject’s embodiment and relationality, both to other human and non-human subjects, the environment, and power. L'affection (Spinoza's affectio) is each such state considered as an encounter between the affected body and a second, affecting, body (with body taken in its broadest possible sense to include "mental" or ideal bodies). It is a prepersonal intensity corresponding to the passage from one experiential state of the body to another and implying an augmentation or diminution in that body's capacity to act. L'affect (Spinoza's affectus) is an ability to affect and be affected. Neither word denotes a personal feeling ( sentiment in Deleuze and Guattari). Brian Massumi defines the term “affect” in his influential introduction to the English translation of Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus:ĪFFECT/AFFECTION. In a 2005 article, “Feeling, Emotion, Affect,” Eric Shouse argued for a clear distinction between three terms that are routinely used interchangeably: “Feelings are personal and biographical, emotions are social, and affects are prepersonal” (M/C Journal 8.6 (2005), web: ). The publication of The Affect Theory Reader in 2010 further helped refine the distinction between emotions-as feelings of which the subject is aware and can claim as her own-and affects, as reactions that involve bodily states and that escapes the confines of the subject. Roundtable on present and future directions of Affect Studies and History of Emotions, including contributions of affective science approaches to pedagogy, interpretation, redefinitions of periodization, genres, and canons. Organizer: Giovanna Faleschini Lerner (Franklin & Marshall College). Respondent: Stefania Porcelli (CUNY).
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