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Keane, Jondi 2013, Affect : initiating heuristic life, in Carnal knowledge : towards a new materialism through the arts, I. B. Tauris, London, England, pp.41-62.

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Title Affect : initiating heuristic life
Formatted title Æffect : initiating heuristic life
Author(s) Keane, Jondi
Title of book Carnal knowledge : towards a new materialism through the arts
Editor(s) Bolt, B.
Barrett, E.
Publication date 2013
Chapter number 3
Total chapters 14
Start page 41
End page 62
Total pages 22
Publisher I. B. Tauris
Place of Publication London, England
Keyword(s) affect new
effect
body-environment
materialism
cognition
Summary This paper re-examines the relationship between affect and effect, discussing them as research values that have emerged from the life sciences, the arts and philosophy and, more importantly, considering them as systems of relations underpinning experiential orientation by which to initiate change and hold the world in place. The notion of æffect may be defined as the continuous measure performed upon the systems of affect/effect and reapplied to events and things. Æffect is a coordinated system of cognition where concurrent measures impact on each other. In doing so, they specify perception and action on multiple registers and scales of events. It is important to recognise that the functioning of affective and effective systems in the body allows, and even requires, paradoxical logics to coexist and be deployed as processes that shape the organism-person-environment. Discussion of selected works from Arakawa and Gins will supply examples of tactics that combine built environments with discursive constraints to guide embodied attention. The practice of embodied cognition dilates the thresholds separating the organism from person and the person from environment, and moves towards an atmospheric intricateness (Arakawa and Gins 2003a:25) that may become the blocs of a new materialism for heuristic life.
ISBN 9781780762661
9781780762654
Language eng
Field of Research 199999 Studies in Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing
HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter
Copyright notice ©2012, The Authors
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30033945

Document type: Book Chapter
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