Course Overview
Affects, the intensities we undergo as we navigate
the chaos that’s life are what we are concerned with in this
course. Particularly, we are interested in how philosophy and
cinema understand and express the ways in which we are
affected when we encounter the “unknowns” of the world,
whether those unknowns are personal, existential, historical,
psychological, or socio political.
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The first part of the course will argue for the importance of
approaching philosophy as a creative activity, and cinema as a
domain of thinking as serious as philosophy. It will also
introduce you to an understanding of affect as the product or
sign of that which, in one way or another, exceeds our
pre-given, taken for granted ways of relating to the world.
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Later parts of the course will focus on modalities of affects such
as love, horror, dread, fear, anxiety, paranoia, guilt, and resentment with a parallel
consideration of philosophical and cinematic works.
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