Week 2 Reading, Critical Theory Seminar (3)

Deleuze and Massumi – Recording posted by Maria Belen
Ordonez

sound recording under 17 mins, less than 2 minute clip, share connections of deleuze, massumi, manning.

20/09/20 9:00 PM

Notes

  • percepts – sensations that become autonomous, affects – sensations that overwhelm (becomings)
  • ontology – nature of being human
    • affect / percept etc is a non-human ontology of being.
    • ontogeny – alternative to ontology, always emerging organism
  • minelli clip – awful is the affect, aesthetics is a percept
  • “deleuze conceptualizes body via percept concept affect,” make up ideas
  • Massumi – the body of discursive site as occupied much of critical theory… sensing body has not been granted same theoretical focus
  • movement makes body without form (incorporeal)
  • movements, forming what the body feels, results in change, unpredictability.
  • “movement and sensation as a process before signification.”
    • process=change, not essence but modification, not binarisms but passing into
  • ontology = being, ontogeny = development(movement, becoming)
  • sociality (before individual or collective), Erin Manning, no distinction between cultural and natural, natural cultural continuum.
  • critical method – is not enough to critique- productivist approach, affirmative methods, not outside of own debunking and critiques, affect and sensations come with joy.

discursively philosophy marked by a method of resolving complex expressions into simpler or more basic ones marked by analytical reasoning https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discursive

body as discursive site: location where discourse takes place … position from where discourse is situated

incorporeal: not corporeal having no material body or form https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incorporeal

corporeal – having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corporeal

20/09/20 10:00 PM