Original Article
Subjectivity (2008) 23, 140–155. doi:10.1057/sub.2008.16
(De)Coding the Subject-in-Affect
Patricia Ticineto Clough1
1The Graduate Center and Queens College CUNY, NY, USA
Correspondence: Patricia Ticineto Clough, 98 Riverside Drive 17E, New York, NY 10024, USA. E-mail: PClough@gc.cuny.edu
Abstract
In these times, the times of control societies, the subject might be described as arising out of an attraction between affect and digital code. Since affect only registers at the imperceptible pre-conscious, pre-individual scale of measure, the subject-in-affect can only be approached through decoding the digital code by which it is made perceptible. Differing from interpretation, decoding however is not about language or meaning; it is about a relation among "dividuals". Without language as the method, or meaning as the end, writing the subject-in-affect is in search of itself.
Keywords:
code, affect, protocol, dividuation, subjectivity, societies of control
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