Tag Archives: affect

Tisha B’Av (Vicarious) (Misery)

Posted on July 26, 2015 by zjb

I’m fasting now for Tisha B’Av. I could mention habit, cultural memory, and ideological commitments as component features that give “meaning” and narrative drama to the day. But as I’ve gotten older, I’m not so interested in these kinds of … Continue reading →

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(Color) Painting Spiritual Affects (Jill Nathanson)

Posted on July 24, 2015 by zjb

Fluid Measure, the recent show by Jill Nathanson at Berry Campbell in Chelsea, is as philosophically interesting as it gets. The paintings are neither abstract nor corporeal, immaterial nor material, spiritual nor physical because they are simultaneously both at once. … Continue reading →

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Spinoza (Affect, Phenomenology, Politics)

Posted on April 18, 2015 by zjb

Excellent review, which you can read here, by Benjamin Wurghaft on 3 new Spinoza books: Hasana Sharp, Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization, Knox Peden Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavailles to Deleuze Antonio Negri, Spinoza for Our Time: … Continue reading →

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Flow, Form, & Other Zoharic Affects –A River Flows From Eden (Melila Hellner-Eshed)

Posted on February 20, 2015 by zjb

By Melila Hellner-Eshed, A River Flows From Eden reads with a very light touch. I’d recommend it as a basic introduction to anyone interested in the Zohar and the phenomenon of mystical consciousness. Unlike studies by Scholem, Idel, and Wolfson, … Continue reading →

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(Graduate Student Conference) “Religion Interruptus: The Affects of Sex, Politics, and Bodies” (Syracuse University)

Posted on February 16, 2015 by zjb

2015 Syracuse University: Religion Graduate Conference “Religion Interruptus: The Affects of Sex, Politics, and Bodies” “ReligionInterruptus: The Affects of Sex, Politics, and Bodies” Syracuse University Graduate Student Conference February 27–28,2015 Schedule: Friday, February 27 1:00 – 1:45    – Registration (table … Continue reading →

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Affect & Phenomenology (In the Pleasure Attitude with Edmund Husserl)

Posted on November 21, 2014 by zjb

In the phenomenology advanced in Ideas II, Husserl proved himself to be an accomplished aesthete. He presents consciousness in gorgeous oscillation between the theoretical and the pleasure attitude. Phenomenological consciousness provides no fixed point perspective. Its intuitions are multiple, folding … Continue reading →

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(Anti-Zionism) Affect (Anti-Semitism)

Posted on July 29, 2014 by zjb

About to step into it one step deeper, I want to address what I think is a fundamental ambiguity at play about Israel and Judaism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Semitism that makes its discourse and politics almost impossible to control or contain. On … Continue reading →

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