The French translation of a seminal work considered to have sparked the "affective turn" in philosophy and cultural theory, in which Brian Massumi examines both the body in motion and media such as art, architecture, television, cinema, and the Internet, reevaluating William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the lens of postwar French philosophy as articulated by Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in order to reconfigure the connections between cultural theory, science, and philosophy.
Canadian philosopher Brian Massumi has been Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author of A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (MIT Press), The Power at the End of the Economy, What Animals Teach Us about Politics, and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke University Press).
