Bodies, Affects, Politics

<p>This book seeks to understand the coexistence of bodily regimes and the politics that emerge from the clash between them:</p> <ul> <li>Presents a novel conceptual model for understanding the relationship between bodies and affects</li> <li>Reworks Ranci&egrave;re’s notions of the distribution of the sensible and the aesthetic unconscious</li> <li>Establishes a dynamic and multiple understanding of the repressive, distributive and communicative unconscious by rethinking Freudian psychoanalysis</li> <li>Utilizes a variety of empirical materials, from Hollywood movies to Freud’s case studies</li> <li>Sets its argument about politics within the context of significant social events to ensure its conceptual and empirical material is relevant to the contemporary political moment</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>