Contemporary affections and communication: some perspectives

Abstract

This present paper aims to discuss a method to analyze the communication field related to Spinoza’s concepts of “affection” and “affect”, via the commentaries of Gilles Deleuze. We aim to open a debate over a phenomenology of affects, specially felt in the machinic communication media. So, for this reason, we classify the method to be presented as the projection of contemporary modern concepts of Spinoza. In a second moment, we propose thinking communicational processes observing their affects and assemblages beyond the Humanist perspective while adopting a flattened ontology that establishes the possibility of communication between things and living beings. Albeit in a very concise manner, we’ll bring some discussions on the “machine oriented ontology” (BRYANT, 2014) theoretical framework or the “object oriented ontology” (HARMAN, 2011).