Notes Towards a Theory of Affect-Itself
Notes Towards a Theory of Affect-Itself
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对情感本身理论的注释
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2007
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Craig Willse
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P. Clough;G. Goldberg;Rachel Schiff;Aaron Weeks;Craig Willse
在本文中，我们针对最近关于情感劳动价值（不可）衡量的争论，提供了一系列重新思考情感的注释。我们建议从将情感视为劳动者财产的观点转变为我们所谓的“情感本身”的概念化。我们通过遵循生命科学和量子物理学中最近对物质、能量和信息的重新表述来实现这一转变。最近的科学思考向我们指出，影响的价值和衡量标准取决于科学和资本对动态物质自我形成能力的投资。情感本身的经济远非使价值衡量变得无关紧要，而是表明，虽然衡量以前提供了价值的表征，但情感本身现在已成为衡量价值的手段，而情感本身也能产生价值。最后，通过审视与情感本身经济相关的新自由主义治理和“先发制人”政治的理论，我们对在这种背景下政治可能是什么以及可能是什么进行了思考。
In this paper, we offer a series of notes toward a rethinking of affect in response to recent debates about the (im)measurability of value of affective labor. We propose shifting from a perspective that views affect as a property of the laborer to a conceptualization of what we call ‘affect-itself.’ We make this move by following recent rearticulations of matter, energy and information in the life sciences and quantum physics. Recent thinking in science points us to ways in which the value and measure of affect depend upon investments by both science and capital in dynamic matter’s capacities for self-forming. Far from rendering the measure of value irrelevant, an economy of affect-itself suggests that while measures had previously provided representations of value, affectivity itself has now become a means of measuring value that is itself productive of value. Finally, looking toward theorizations of neoliberal governmentality and politics of ‘pre-emption’ in relation to an economy of affect-itself, we offer a consideration of what politics might be, and could be, in such a context.