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Desire After Affect Desire After Affect Marie-Luise Angerer Translated by Nicholas Grindell Foreword by Patricia T. Clough London•NewYork PublishedbyRowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd. UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB www.rowmaninternational.com Rowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd.isanaffiliateofRowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706,USA WithadditionalofficesinBoulder,NewYork,Toronto(Canada),andPlymouth (UK) www.rowman.com Copyright©2015Marie-LuiseAngerer,FirstpublishedinGermanasVomBegeh- rennachdemAffektbyDiaphanesin2007 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsys- tems,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomay quotepassagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:HB978-1-78348-130-9 ISBN:PB978-1-78348-131-6 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Angerer,Marie-Luise,1958– [VomBegehrennachdemAffekt.English] Desireafteraffect/Marie-LuiseAngerer;translatedbyNicholasGrindell;forewordby PatriciaClough. pagescm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-78348-130-9(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN978-1-78348-131-6(pbk.:alk. paper)—ISBN978-1-78348-132-3(ebook) 1.Emotions.2.Desire.3.Sex(Psychology)4.Psychoanalysisandculture.5.Affect.6.Mass Media.I.Title. BF511.A54132015 128'.37--dc23 2014029841 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMateri- als,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Contents Acknowledgments vii Foreword ix PatriciaT.Clough Introduction xv 1 AffectiveTroublesinMediaandArt 1 2 Human|Posthuman|Transhuman 25 3 AffectVersusDrive,ortheBattleoverRepresentation 49 4 VirtualSexandOtherMetamorphoses 71 5 SexualizingAffect 87 6 Postscript:ANewAffectiveOrganization 115 Bibliography 135 Index 147 v Acknowledgments My work on Desire After Affect drew on conversations with col- leaguesandstudentsatvarioustimesandplaces.AlthoughIcannot give an exhaustive list here, I am grateful to them all. I would, however, like to make specific mention of my discussions with Bernd Bösel, Michaela Ott, Anna Tuschling and Rolf Grossmann, who prepared and ran the international symposium Timing of Af- fect1 with me. The workshop Re-working Affect at Berlin’s ICI,2 to which I was invited by Brigitte Bargetz, also encouraged me to re- thinkthepoliticalandsocietaldimensionsofaffect.Iamgratefulto Claus Pias and Martin Warnke, who in the winter term of 2013 invited me as senior fellow to the Institute for Advanced Study in “MediaCulturesofComputerSimulation”atLeuphanaUniversity inLüneburg,whereIwasabletobeginmyworkonthefinalchap- ter. Thanks to an invitation from Chris Salter, Brian Massumi, and Erin Manning, I was able to continue this work at Hexagram and SenseLab in Montreal in the spring of 2014. My special thanks to BerndBöselforhis“insistentclosereading”ofthefinalchapterand to Patricia T. Clough for her wonderful foreword. Paul Patton and MoiraGatensencouragedmetopushforwardwiththeprojectofan English edition, as well as established the contact to Rowman & LittlefieldInternational.ThankstoSarahCampbell,whosupported theprojectwithinterestandcommitmentfromtheoutset,andespe- cially to Martina O’Sullivan, who managed the project within the CulturalStudiesseries.Abigthank-youtoNicholasGrindellforall his workon theEnglishversionofthebook,andtoStephenZepke for his constructive copy-editing. Thanks, once again, to Michael Heitz of diaphanes for his support. And finally, the entire project withallitshighsandlowswasaccompaniedbyRolfWalz,whomI wouldliketothankhereonceagainforhishelpandpatience. Marie-LuiseAngerer Berlin,June2014 vii viii Acknowledgments NOTES 1. Timing of Affect, international symposium, Academy of Media Arts Co- logne, 31 May–1 June 2013, www.khm.de/nocache/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/ veranstaltung/article/2654-timing-of-affect-internationales-symposium/nCall/ 136(retrieved8June2014). 2. Reworking Affect: Queer-Feminist Engagements, workshop, 27 June 2013, www.ici-berlin.org/de/event/512(retrieved8June2014).

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Desire is a term often used in conjunction with the subject. This desire is directed towards the real, which is defined as the generic core of the linguistic order. As a result of the focus on affect, the three terms—desire, the subject, the real—have been fundamentally shaken up and called into
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