Affect (philosophy)

Affect (philosophy)

"Affect" (latin affectus or adfectus) is a concept used in philosophy by Spinoza, Deleuze and Guattari. According to Spinoza's "Ethics" III, 3, Definition 3, an affect is an empowerment, and not a simple change or modification. Affects, according to Deleuze, are not simple affections, as they are independent from their subject. Artists create affects and percepts, "blocks of space-time", whereas science works with functions, according to Deleuze, and philosophy creates concepts.

See also

*Immanent evaluation
*Conatus
* [http://www.affectjournal.co.uk/WhatisAffect.html Affect Journal]

Notes

ources

* Deleuze, Gilles. 1983. "". Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. London and New York: Continuum, 2005. ISBN 0826477054.


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