Affective Networks

Abstract

Having explored some historic examples and conceptual frames for understanding a collaboration of biology and technology, we now focus on theories that underpin disparate issues impinging on behaviour in a network of affection. Part II will explore particular cinematic perspectives, but this chapter is concerned with clarifying the intersection of approaches that aid analysis of consensual assemblages and affective networks. These approaches comprise actor network theory, the idea of hybrid agency, genealogies of new media and Deleuze’s notion of abstract desire.