Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement
Russell Duvernoy develops ‘resonances’ between the metaphysics of Whitehead and Deleuze with regard to effects on attention and affect. The implications of these lead to an altered existential orientation, described by Duvernoy as ecological attunement.
This original concept suggests that attention is ontologically creative, not just passively receptive, and feeling and affect are ontologically prior to the consolidation of lived subjectivity. The combined effects of these speculative claims cut deeply against the grain of prevailing habits with regard to subjectivity.
Though these results are resolutely speculative, they unfold amidst intensifying ecological crisis and accompanying social, political and existential turbulence. What does it mean to pursue speculative thinking in this context? How do metaphysical concepts inform our lives and how might different concepts lead to different ways of life?
Drawing on recent work by Massumi, Stengers, Debaise and Williams, this study explores their work in relation to other speculative trends in recent philosophy, including new materialisms, posthumanisms, speculative realism and object-oriented-ontology.

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Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement
Russell Duvernoy develops ‘resonances’ between the metaphysics of Whitehead and Deleuze with regard to effects on attention and affect. The implications of these lead to an altered existential orientation, described by Duvernoy as ecological attunement.
This original concept suggests that attention is ontologically creative, not just passively receptive, and feeling and affect are ontologically prior to the consolidation of lived subjectivity. The combined effects of these speculative claims cut deeply against the grain of prevailing habits with regard to subjectivity.
Though these results are resolutely speculative, they unfold amidst intensifying ecological crisis and accompanying social, political and existential turbulence. What does it mean to pursue speculative thinking in this context? How do metaphysical concepts inform our lives and how might different concepts lead to different ways of life?
Drawing on recent work by Massumi, Stengers, Debaise and Williams, this study explores their work in relation to other speculative trends in recent philosophy, including new materialisms, posthumanisms, speculative realism and object-oriented-ontology.

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Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement

Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement

by Russell J. Duvernoy
Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement

Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement

by Russell J. Duvernoy

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Russell Duvernoy develops ‘resonances’ between the metaphysics of Whitehead and Deleuze with regard to effects on attention and affect. The implications of these lead to an altered existential orientation, described by Duvernoy as ecological attunement.
This original concept suggests that attention is ontologically creative, not just passively receptive, and feeling and affect are ontologically prior to the consolidation of lived subjectivity. The combined effects of these speculative claims cut deeply against the grain of prevailing habits with regard to subjectivity.
Though these results are resolutely speculative, they unfold amidst intensifying ecological crisis and accompanying social, political and existential turbulence. What does it mean to pursue speculative thinking in this context? How do metaphysical concepts inform our lives and how might different concepts lead to different ways of life?
Drawing on recent work by Massumi, Stengers, Debaise and Williams, this study explores their work in relation to other speculative trends in recent philosophy, including new materialisms, posthumanisms, speculative realism and object-oriented-ontology.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474466929
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 08/25/2022
Series: New Perspectives in Ontology
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Russell Duvernoy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at King’s UniversityCollege at Western University of Ontario. His work draws on continental philosophy and process philosophies to engage with environmental questions and climate crisis. His articles have appeared in Southern Journal of Philosophy, Transactions of Charles S. Peirce Society, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Radical Philosophy Review, and others.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Ecological Turbulence and the Adventure of Metaphysics

  1. Attention, Feeling, and Psychic Ecology
  2. A Speculative Concept: Ecological Attunement
  3. Statement of Purpose

PART I: Process Metaphysics and Ecological Attunement

1 Motivating Metaphysics: From Radical Empiricism to Process

  1. Risking the Speculative: On Problems and Beginnings
  2. Attending to the Bifurcation of Nature
  3. Pure Experience as Series and Events
  4. Realism and Asubjective Experience

2 Individuation and Attunement: Identities in Process

  1. Constructing a Problem: Individuality at the Intersection of the Abstract and Existential
  2. Three Theses on Individuation in Process or Event Based Thinking

3 Feeling as Creation: Affect and Tertiary Qualities

  1. Perspectival Realism and Primary-Secondary-Tertiary Qualities
  2. Subjective Aim and Intensity
  3. Attention, Attunement, and Becoming-Imperceptible?

4 Attention, Openness, and Ecological Attunement

  1. Two Forms of Passage and Subjective Attention
  2. Subject as Society: Openness and Stability
  3. ‘Lines of Flight’ and Paradoxes of Normativity

PART II: Applied Metaphysics and Existential Implications

5 Attention, Equivalence, and Existential Territories

1. Existential Territories and Psychic Ecologies

2. The Infiltration of Equivalence: From Operation to Axiology

3. Attention as Ontological and Counter-Habits

6 The Risks of Affect

1. The Double Bind of Ecological Attunement

2. Attunement and Affect: Vitality before World

3. Tertiary Qualities and Self/Other

4. Janus-Faced Time: Selection and Orientation in Ecological Attunement

Conclusion: Fabulation and Epoch(s) to Come

1. Implications for Ecological Attunement

2. Fabulation and Imagination as Affirmative Resistance

References Cited

Index.

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