Deleuze and Affect

D. J. S. Cross is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His first book, Deleuze and the Problem of Affect, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. He has translated works by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Catherine Malabou and Pablo Oyarzun.

• Introductions: Deleuze AND AffectD. J. S. CrossPart I: Spinoza and the Problem of Affection1. The Evolution of Deleuze’s Concept of AffectDaniel W. Smith 2. In God or in Chaos: The Difference between Spinoza’s and Deleuze’s Conceptions of BeatitudeLeonard Lawlor 3. Deleuze and the Many Faces of Affect: An Epistemo-Ethical Account of What Affects Do and Why We Need ThemJanae SholtzPart II: Sociopolitics of Affect4. The Passion of Abolition: Deleuze and Guattari and the Affective Politics of FascismAidan Tynan 5. The Production of Reality: Deleuze & Work, via Affected LabourAlexia CameronPart III: Affects Critical and Clinical 6. The Birth of the Clinical in the Philosophy of Gilles DeleuzePatricio Landaeta 7. Deleuze and Bergman: Persona and the Affection-ImageRichard Rushton8. Affective Dissonance and Architectural (Dis)RepairHélène Frichot Part IV: Surfaces, Inscriptions, Affects9. The End of the Book and the Beginning of AffectClaire Colebrook 10. Between Derrida and Deleuze: Bodies without OrgansNibras Chehayed11. Deleuze’s Khôratic FingersJames Martell Notes on ContributorsIndex

D. J. S. Cross has brought together the most diverse perspectives on and therefore the most thorough explication of Deleuze’s thinking on affect. In considering the onto-epistemology of affect from the political to the clinical, from the metaphysical foundation of identity to the reconceptualisation of the body without organs, this collection of essays dazzles with insight. If Deleuze’s writings always have invited us to live and think more creatively, surely there is no more pressing a time than now for that invitation to be offered again. Along with D. J. S Cross’s rich and instructive introduction, the essays of Deleuze and Affect generously extend that invitation.