New Paper by Leila Dawney

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 31(4):  628 – 644 

The interruption: investigating subjectivation and  affect
Leila Dawney

Abstract. This paper contributes to current debates concerning affect
  and the nonrepresentational subject by introducing the concept of the
  interruption as a means of exploring the politics both of experience and of the
  feeling body. By thinking about the way in which affect is theorised in
  Spinoza’s Ethics alongside a critique of the subject that draws on Foucault, I
  position the interruption as an event that elicits a mode of critique that
  enables an interrogation of both the sociality of affect and the somatisation
of  politics. This paper explores three events that I describe as interruptions,
and  demonstrates the utility and scope of such a concept.
Keywords:
  Foucault, Spinoza, affect, experience, subjectivity, nonrepresentational
theory,  embodiment