Affect Readings @ Site Gallery,
Sheffield
Thursday 3 May 2012, 6pm onwards
Spinoza’s
Concept of Affect
The final reading group session at Site moves from considering the
affective potential of collective witnessing, towards a return to origins of
sorts – engaging with the notion of affect through the prism of a specifically
Deleuzian-Spinozist set of readings. The session takes Gilles Deleuze’s Lecture on Spinoza’s Concept of Affect (Cours
Vincennes, 1978) as its starting point for discussion, alongside the additional
reading of the chapter Spinoza and Us (taken from Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy,
1988).