User:DoctorMabuse/Sandbox16

Affect ([affectus or adfectus] Error: {{Langx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a philosophical concept used by Baruch Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

Affects, according to Deleuze, are not simple emotions, since they are independent from their subject. Artists create affects and percepts ("blocks of space-time"), he argues, whereas science works with functions and philosophy creates concepts.

Look at the discussion of Bergson and affect in "The Affection-image" in Cinema 1

See also

• Immanent evaluation
• Conatus

Sources

• Deleuze, Gilles. 1981. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. Revised ed. Trans. Robert Hurley. San Francisco: City Lights, 1988. ISBN 0872862186.
• ---. 1983. Cinema 1: The Movement Image. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. London and New York: Continuum, 2005. ISBN 0826477054.
• Curley, Edwin, trans. 1996. Ethics. By Benedict de Spinoza. London and New York: Penguin. ISBN 0140435719.

External links

• Affect Journal