Book contents
- Affect and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Affect and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- I Origins
- II Developments
- III Applications
- Chapter 18 Affect and Environment in Contemporary Ecopoetics
- Chapter 19 Contemporary Crisis Fictions: Twenty-First Century Disaffection
- Chapter 20 Shiny Happy Imperialism
- Chapter 21 The Digital’s Amodal Affect
- Chapter 22 Digital Special Affects: On Exhilaration and the Stun in CGI Blockbuster Films
- Chapter 23 Cartesian Affect
- Index
Chapter 21 - The Digital’s Amodal Affect
from III - Applications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2020
- Affect and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Affect and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- I Origins
- II Developments
- III Applications
- Chapter 18 Affect and Environment in Contemporary Ecopoetics
- Chapter 19 Contemporary Crisis Fictions: Twenty-First Century Disaffection
- Chapter 20 Shiny Happy Imperialism
- Chapter 21 The Digital’s Amodal Affect
- Chapter 22 Digital Special Affects: On Exhilaration and the Stun in CGI Blockbuster Films
- Chapter 23 Cartesian Affect
- Index
Summary
Via digital and networked media, a volatility of process infuses the world. My argument here is threefold. First, signal (from sunshine to speech to wifi) and code (from the so-called “nature’s code” to alphabets to modern data) have always involved a technical carriage of transformational capacity. At its heart, this involves an attunement – for better or worse – to amodal capacities for affecting and being affected. Second, as the transformational capacity of digital and networked media increases, this pushes the more towards living, thinking, and feeling with the amodal. Third, this opens up a potential infinity of shifting, and more obviously transient modalities. To put this differently, modality needs to be thought as both continuity and novelty at once, in what I will later in this chapter call an a(modal) shimmering.
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- Affect and Literature , pp. 390 - 407Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020