Deleuze and Affect by D J S Cross

Deleuze and Affect by D J S Cross

Deleuze and Affect brings together work from emerging and established scholars to address and reassess the role of affect in Deleuze’s work and its legacy in the critical humanities. Affects are not merely new sensations; they are, more radically, new sensibilities. They therefore have the potential to redefine the very conditions of experience, to open new relations to the world, and to reshape each discipline. The multidisciplinary contributors to this volume place affect squarely at the intersection of diverse fields and disciplines from philosophy and literature, visual studies and film studies, art and architecture, through to politics and economics. In an age in which the sciences unlock more and more secrets of a body that is also, paradoxically, becoming more and more precarious, this volume examines the stakes and spectrum of what it means 'to affect’ and 'to be affected'.

DJ. S. Cross has brought together the most diverse perspectives on and therefore the most thorough explication of Deleuze’s thinking on affect. In considering the onto-epistemology of affect from the political to the clinical, from the metaphysical foundation of identity to the reconceptualisation of the body without organs, this collection of essays dazzles with insight. If Deleuze’s writings always have invited us to live and think more creatively, surely there is no more pressing a time than now for that invitation to be offered again. Along with D. J. S Cross’s rich and instructive introduction, the essays of Deleuze and Affect generously extend that invitation.

D. J. S. Cross is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His first book, Deleuze and the Problem of Affect, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. He has translated works by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Catherine Malabou and Pablo Oyarzun.

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ISBN 13	9781399562928
ISBN 10	1399562924
Title	Deleuze and Affect
Author	D J S Cross
Series	Deleuze Connections
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Year published	2026-06-30
Number of pages	288
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