Check out this paper by Anna Gibbs on Hanson and the contagion of
affect. "Contagious Feelings: Pauline Hanson and the Epidemiology of
Affect" which can be found on:
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/
---has to be one of the more interesting uses of D&G's
faciality concept I have read, where D&G only make a footnote,
perhaps.... Everything is there, in a way, with
the added excitement that Silvan Tomkin's affect has been deployed
as the probe head. I find that face Plateau difficult and
complex in ATP, perhaps because it involves a reversal of Hegel.
Hegel dragged poetry (kicking and screaming) towards the Absolute and
the universal face of God, to face judgment. D&G reverse Hegel
by saying the universal is a false infinity and so a universal is
finite and limited. There is also the dualism of blackhole and white
face. This cannot be escaped by returning to a primitive head and so
dualism and judgment can only be taken apart from the inside, in this
case by Tomkins Affect Theory used as a probe head.
A further connection can be added into this. The connection between
poetry or poetics and television. Something I have seen little
discusion of.
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:03, Chris Jones wrote:
> Helen
>
> H.D. (1916)
>
> All Greece hates
> the still eyes in the white face,
> the luster as of olives
> where she stands,
> And the white hands.
>
> All Greece reviles
> the wan face when she smiles,
> hating it deeper still
> when it grows wan and white,
> remembering past enchantments
> and past ills.
>
> Greece sees unmoved,
> God's daughter, born of love,
> the beauty of cool feet
> and slenderest knees,
> could love indeed the maid,
> only if she were laid,
> white ash amid funereal cypresses.