msdm: mobile strategies of display & mediation

Prada M., J. 200? “Vínculo-a(fectivo).” Vinculo-a Website Essay
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overview
1. Affectivity> first/primary link/bond for human interaction (precedes professional, economic, political, identity affinity bonds). Point of departure for all sociability. (Possible definition: ensemble of psychic representations).

2. Affectivity: corporeal experience mediating between individual & pre-individual, activates the organism to become body. Complex dynamics, situated between culture & biology.

3. Affectivity: points to the virtuality/potentiality of the world/being.
Demands a permanent excess/exteriority of the individual manifest in its propensity towards the others/the world. Link between outside/inside, individuality/sociability. Elementary base for interaction between people.

4. Affectivity: Aesthetic bond, with the world/objects/beings through emotions/feelings that produce affects. Affectivity: places the aesthetic in a pre-political place (thus its revolutionary potential). An analysis of affective meetings focuses on the roots of the political/ organisational forms that in-form the ethical.

5. Affectivity and cognition: studies have recognised the role of affectivity in the production of meaning and signification. Importance in the development of new theories of education.

6. Affectivity and aesthetic experience: artistic creativity as a prolific research field to access human affect in contemporary society. An active development of this field might shed light on the interrelationships between aesthetics and biopolitic. And show that the politics of affect, its production, management and manipulation are, in reality, the aesthetics of the contemporary biopower.

7. The project: approaches to the affective nature of the biopolitical production/ the processes of automatisation imposed by cybertime.
Project gathers: Artistic projects which refer to desire of personal and affective contact through the network, and to its camouflage through fiction and narrative forms; amateur affective imaginaries which multiply on the web; and casual meetings in the transit spaces of large cities.