Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation

By B. Massumi. 2002

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Subfields: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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Towards a theory of drug use contexts: Space, embodiment and practice (2007, background): “The real innovation lies in the attempt to uncover the ‘‘qualitative excess’’ the ‘‘uncontained affect’’ (Massumi 2002, p. 214) that suffuses all drug use assemblages giving them particular contextual resonances.”
Locative media and data-driven computing experiments (2016, background): “Computing experiments therefore make important sites of examination to explore how an unknown future has been rendered and processed, and how expectations have been sensed, expressed and actualised (c.f. Massumi, 2002: 34–7).”
The Human Sciences in a Biological Age (2013, background): “…theorists and feminist philosophers have come to realize that it is not reactionary to recognize the reality of our fleshly nature, and to examine the possibilities and constraints that flow from it (Blackman, 2008, 2010; Braidotti, 2002; Grosz, 1994; Massumi, 2002; Thrift, 2007; Wilson, 2004b).”
Feeling abstinent? Feeling comprehensive? Touching the affects of sexuality curricula (2010, methodology): “I use the terms interchangeably, sidestepping the idea that emotion and affect, for example, ‘follow different logics and pertain to different orders’ (Massumi 2002, 27).”
Affect, Relationality and the `Problem of Personality' (2008, background): “This redistribution of a particular model of social influence is one that many contemporary authors assume in their writings, and prevents a serious engagement with its implications in relation to affect and relationality (see Brennan, 2004; Connolly, 2002; Massumi, 2002; Wilson, 2004).”
The like economy: Social buttons and the data-intensive web (2013, background): “The affective dynamics informing such engagement (Massumi, 2002) are not measurable, countable and comparable as such but are, rather, intensive (DeLanda, 2006), referring to transforming states of being.”
Embodying Affect: Voice-hearing, Telepathy, Suggestion and Modelling the Non-conscious (2010, methodology): “Massumi (2002) suggests that one of the problems for humanities scholars in thinking affect and bodies is the lack of a conceptual vocabulary.”
Methodological Immaturity in Childhood Research? (2008, background): “As such, we are unconvinced by claims that ‘participatory methods’ present ‘an alternative to ethnographic methods’ (O’Kane, 2000: 138). Indeed, despite her claim to have selected participatory techniques on this basis, Claire O’Kane’s research was broadly ethnographic, proceeding largely through a ”
Reinventing psychological matters: the importance of the suggestive realm of Tarde's ontology (2007, background): “This is rather different from the contemporary emphasis on flows, affect and becoming across social theory (Latour 2002; Massumi 2002; Manning 2007).”
The offence of theory (2010, background): “(Massumi 2002, 17–18) Examples necessarily involve details; indeed as Massumi notes, their success hinges on them.”
Entrepreneurship and process studies (2015, background): “Massumi (2002) extends such empiricism to cover what may happen, as well as what has happened, describing intuition as a ‘mode of thought most precisely suited to the differentiating vagueness of the virtual’ (p.134), that is, of that which still needs to be made actual by creative activity.”
Moving Institutional Logics Forward: Emotion and Meaningful Material Practice (2018, background): “Affect, Massumi argues,“infolds” contexts, its “volitions and cognitions,” a pre-conscious “incipience” of “pathways of action and expression” (Massumi, 2002, p. 30).”