Search Results for affect

... of entities there are in the world), affect (cognitive and corporeal attunements to such entities), and selfhood (relatively reflexive centers of attunement). Broadly speaking, it argues that these three themes are empirically, methodologically, and theoretically inseparable—each must be simultaneously...

... This chapter spells out the implications of affect theory by laying out what it can offer religious studies in the wake of the linguistic turn. Where the linguistic turn successfully connected religions to systems of power by focusing on the relationships between religion, language, and history...

... Starting with a case study demonstrating how religious practices can create consistent emotional reactions across cultures, this chapter examines the relationship between embodiment, emotion, and language by reflecting on the divide between the two branches of affect theory—the Deleuzian...

... This chapter explores how affect operates within systems of power. Power is determined neither by language nor the operations of a sovereign consciousness, but by affective compulsions that move bodies. To draw out this motif, this chapter explores three case studies. First, critical approaches...

...The Power to Affect This chapter moves to the “home front” of the “war on terror.” It discusses the terror color-alert system set in place by the Bush administration as an exercise in media-based priming of the population for asymmetric war across the full spectrum of preemptive power...