Intensities of feeling: towards a spatial politics of affect
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...This is unfortunate since this work is now going beyond the crude behaviourism of the past, but incorporating it would have necessitated not just a supplement but a complete new paper (cf. Davidson et al, 2003)....
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...The second kind of affect is associated with psychoanalytic models of affect of the kind produced by Tomkins and is an attempt to move outside ‘the relentlessly self-propagating, adaptive structure of the repressive hypothesis’ (Sedgwick, 2003, p. 12)....
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...In another sense it is an attempt to move beyond it by valorising what Sedgwick (2003) calls the ‘middle ranges of agency’....
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...(Tomkins cited in Sedgwick, 2003, p. 21) Significantly, for Tomkins, it is the face that is the chief site of affect: ‘I have now come to regard the skin, in general, and the skin of the face in particular, as of the greatest importance in producing the feel of affect’ (Tomkins cited in Demos,…...
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...Sedgwick (2003) gives the example of enjoyment of a piece of music leading to wanting to hear it over and over again, listening to other music or even training to become a musician oneself....
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...It is no accident that so many authors have turned to Buddhism for inspiration (cf. Varela, 1999; Sedgwick, 2003)....
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