... affective fact affective politics virtual quasi-cause political legitimation ...

... status of threat: threats may be “real” (i.e., correspond to an actual danger) or they may be felt into existence. If I am afraid, I felt a threat. It is immaterial whether it was present or not. An immaterial cause that is not actually present is a virtual cause (a “quasi-cause”). Ontopower involves...

... felt a threat. It is immaterial whether it was present or not. An immaterial cause that is not actually present is a virtual cause (a “quasi-cause”). Ontopower involves a politics of the virtual. affective fact affective politics virtual quasi-cause political legitimation ...

..., they could present themselves as people who could mediate between the tourists’ everyday lives and Canada’s vast natural landscape. Chapter 4 addresses how this aura was produced through the deployment of fictive kinship terms and the development of quasi-family relationships in the transnational workers...