Affect Indicates That Living Bodies [] Do Not Negotiate Their Worlds Solely Or Even For The Most Part

Affect indicates that living bodies […] do not negotiate their worlds solely – or even for the most part – by representing to themselves the features of the world, but by feeling what they can and cannot do in a particular situation. The primary contact with another being in the world is a feeling of what the encounter of the two bodies would be like[ …] Affect has two registers. First, it is being affected, that is, undergoing the somatic change caused by encounter with an object: this aspect of affect can also be called ‘affection,’ as the composition or mixture of bodies, or more precisely the change produced in the affected body by the action of the affective body in an encounter (roughly speaking, political physiology or the objective aspect of political affect). Second, affect is the felt change in the power of the body, the increase or decrease in perfection, felt as sadness or joy (roughly speaking, political feeling or the subjective aspect of political affect). For Deleuze and Guattari, affect is thus physiological and psychological at once. Deleuze and Guattari operationalize the complex notion of affect as the ability of bodies to form assemblages with other bodies…

Protevi, Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic, 48-9 (via feelingpolitical)

The living and the dead

  David Lan-Guns and Rain: Guerrillas & Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe.

 In Zimbabwe the Struggle for Zimbabwe(1966-80), hundreds of thousands of peasants provided the guerrillas with practical help and support.

 But they went a good deal further. Throughout the country scores of spirit mediums, the religious leaders of the Shona, gave active support to resistance. With their participation, the scale of the war expanded into an astonishing act of collaboration between ancestors and their descendants, the past and the present, the living and the dead.

L.E.D. − I'll feat 原田郁子

A crack between occurences

Now I am listening to a rock band. It's nice.