Rethinking Affect, Sensation and Perception

Abstract

As Chapter 7 demonstrates enfleshed presence, which I have called being there, is bound up with the sensate person who can locate their own presence, in an experience which invokes the senses. Bodies are there and not there in the zone. The experience of being in the zone suggested a liminality, which the personal and psychic are entangled with the social and cultural in a psychosocial space in which different affects are generated. The last chapter’s discussion of phenomenon of being in the zone addressed the extent to which spectators and audiences can be in the zone. Some experiences and key moments that are remembered and enter the annals of culture do include a collective experience of the zone in which everything is caught up in an experience which can be called an event, as an assemblage of all these different, interrelated components.