The Forms of the Affects

Synopsis

This Title Makes An Important Intervention Into What Has Been Described As The 'affective Turn,' Asking What 'formal Affect' Involves, Or, Put Another Way, What Remains Of Affect If It Is Not Thought Through The Lens Of The Subject. As She Traces, With Humour And Verve, The Ways Philosophers Have Thought About Sympathy, Pathos, Moral Sentiment, Crying, Disgust, Grief, Loss, Anxiety, And Failure, Eugenie Brinkema Repeatedly Considers What It Means To Consider These Experiences As Visual Problems. Ten Points To Begin -- A Tear That Does Not Drop, But Folds -- Crying Is Structured Like A Language -- Tears Without Bodies -- Film Theory's Absent Center -- Emotion, Feeling, Excess, Affect -- Affective Fallacies -- Reading For Affect -- Mise-n'en-scene: Formalism After Presence -- Interval: Solitude -- The Illumination Of Light -- Visible Darkness: Optics According To Augustine -- Light, The Peculiar -- Ongoing Dialogues With Loss -- Grief Without Sublation -- Grief And The Undialectical Image -- Ma Mort Indialectique -- Extra Missing Things -- Acedia And The Pose -- Where Being Would Have Been -- A Still And Heavy Pain -- Aesthetic Exclusions And The Worse Than The Worst -- Philosophy Of The Retch -- Aesthetics' Tastes -- What Is Worse Than The Worst -- Objects, Abjects, Close-ups -- Laura Dern's Vomit -- Wild Hearts, Sick Figures -- Disgust And The Cinema Of Haut Go't -- Gastronomy According To Peter Greenaway -- Dissecting Qualities -- Rot's Progress -- On Having An Excellent Palate -- Interval: Formalism And Affectivity -- Intermittency, Embarrassment, Dismay -- These Things That Creep, Stir And Squirm -- Heksebrev -- Interruption Or The Interval -- Esmoi, Esmais, émoi -- Treading Red Blue Water -- Nothing/will Have Taken Place/but The Place: Open Water Anxiety -- Something Or Nothing -- A Shark Is A Form Of Time -- A Shark Punctures A Line -- Death Is A Turn Of The Color Wheel -- Nothing But The Place -- To Begin Again: The Ingression Of Joyful Forms -- Affirmable Modes Of Recurrence -- (shall We) Let X = -- Putting One's Faith In Form. Eugenie Brinkema. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.