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... calls wormlike processes: affective impulses coalescing and producing political formations. Far from looking down on the world from an angelic standpoint, language and belief (including scientific knowledge) are themselves products of affective landscapes. Materialist phenomenology works with affect...

... This chapter begins with theoretically contested notions of the neurological nonconscious that have produced two differently oriented strands in the posthumanities: a remodeled cognitive theoretical framework and a new materialist rendering of affect theory. The chapter probes these two strands...

...Worlding and Unworlding<subtitle>Worldliness, Narrative, and “Literature” in Phenomenology and Deconstruction</subtitle> This chapter is a critical reconstruction of Heidegger’s theory of world and its ontological connection to temporality and transcendence. It elaborates on his rejection...

..., and his critique of geographical concepts of world and the spiritualist and materialist teleologies of Goethe, Hegel, and Marx. The chapter then examines in greater detail his argument that radically finite temporality is a force of worlding and considers its implications for understanding modern...

... and a new materialist rendering of affect theory. The chapter probes these two strands and then sketches out a Whiteheadian nonconscious. The first observation notes the differing ways in which the neuroscientific nonconscious has stirred up debate. The aim is to place a small range of varied new...

... use digital video to depict earthly, embodied, and mortal concerns. They are expressly about aging and memory and the urge to forestall or let go of passing time. The Gleaners and I is a film about salvaging that uses consumer-grade digital equipment to express materialist, feminist...