Concepts

Explore philosophical concepts, their meanings in different languages, explanations and sources.

affectus

In Spinoza, bodily modifications that change the power to act, together with their ideas.

A relational arrangement in which bodies, tools, and expressions function together and alter capacities.

Acknowledging rights, needs, and contributions within social relations.

In Benjamin, a unique appearance of distance, however near something may be.

The writer’s role in transforming production techniques and relationships with readers.

In Spinoza, each thing’s striving to persevere in its being.

Deleuze and Guattari’s investigation of bodies beyond prescribed organization.

Freud’s concept for psychical activity that exceeds conscious awareness.

The loosening of stabilizing relations, considered alongside new attachments.

In Benjamin, past and present becoming legible together in a particular constellation.

In Marx, activity, products, and relations confronting people as alien powers.

In Benjamin, the sharing of experience through storytelling, listening and counsel.