Abstract

MACON, Cecilia. Know or lie: the affective conformation of power according to The faculties. Cuad. CILHA [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.2, pp.93-110. ISSN 1852-9615.

Affect theory as deployed by the Affective Turn usually repeats a set of key characteristics to define affects: understood as the capacity to affect and be affected, affects are performative and question a series of important oppositions - reason/emotion; body/mind; interior/exterior-. Indeed, these are some of the features that have been analyzed in the last two decades based on premises discussed essentially by Spinoza, but also by cultural studies, contemporary philosophy, anthropology and LGTBIQX theories. In this article I scrutinize one of the dimensions exhibited in the foundational moments of this tradition: the role of affects in the constitution of power, but also in the possibilities of challenging it. In order to unfold my perspective on this matter I will not focus on images or texts explicitly political, but on a recent Argentinean documentary film: Las facultades, directed by Eloísa Solaas, where, according to my analysis, the affective rules involved in the constitution of power as well as in possible ways of confronting it, are examined under a sophisticated perspective.

Keywords : Affect; Power; Anxiety; Uncertainty; Eloísa Solaas.

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