AGAINST AFFECT: reason or reaction? (opens in new tab)

As someone who (1) has written a whole book about the structural conditions compelling people to perform spectacles of damage and vulnerability and their overcoming and (2) tends to think that the rise of Massumian affect theory in the 90s was a way to appear to rejuvenate white Western theory with a new methodology while keeping theorists focused exclusively on the white Western canon (why center Deleuze and Spinoza when The Souls of Black Folk and its sorrow is right there showing you how t...