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"Feeling is the consciousness of affect *: feelings translate the ongoing life state in the language of the mind, feelings are perceptions of the body state based in the brain's "body maps".
(...) core consciousness is the feeling of what happens."

"Power is the action on the action of others, attempting to render their behavior patterns predictable.
All socialization has been defined as a form of power, but power carries no hint of moral oppositorium.
Also, to define freedom or justice as the absence of power relations is nonsensical for Foucault, for it should substitute mere chaos for sociality. Domination, torture, the physical control of bodies are not forms of power to Foucault: power requires the interaction of free subjects."
"From Antonio Negri's work on Spinoza, differentiating power from puissance is essential:
power as pouvoir comes from imposing form on the chaotic passive material and bodies (as a fascistic action) and power as puissance is self-organization: people working together to generate the structures of their social life."


"A key element in our consideration of political affect is the triggering of affect programs such as rage and panic. These are both de-subjectivizing and de-contextualizing and polarize the world into attack and retreat directions."

"Affect is both to be affected, undergoing the somatic change caused by an encounter with another person or object,  and the felt change in power of the body (political feeling) - the increased or decreased potentiality, felt as sadness or joy."
"Pleasure is the subjective appropriation of joy."


"Does an encounter increase the puissance of bodies_subjects?"
"The primary contact with another being in the world is a feeling of what the encounter of the two bodies would be like (Damasio speaks of a somatic marker for the as-if loop of imaginal encounter).
There are three types of encounters:
- diagonal encounter with decrease of puissance by one and increase of puissance by the other
- encounter where both subjects decrease their puissance (destructive encounter)
- encounter where both subjects increase their puissance (mutually empowering encounter)"

"Sense-making in all its aspects - sensibility, signification, direction - occurs in concrete encounters of bodies politics."



excerpts from Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic
by John Protevi

* Damasio