The concept of affective spaces acknowledges spaces as active and virtual arenas that are accurate to speak as multiple relational spaces and events already on their way. McCormack (2013) describes, how spaces are “produced via a range of technologies and experienced through different sensory registers; spaces with variable reaches and intensities; and spaces that can often only be apprehended in and through the assemblages of movement and stillness of which they are composed” (p.2). Mutual relatedness, to affect and be affected, calls for activation and relational events (see Massumi, 2015).  Spaces of attunement are occupied by bodies that are in movement and in stillness, “enabled and constrained by various material architectures, habitual behaviors, and organizational technologies” (p.2). Thinking-feeling bodies, according to Manning (2016), are “relational matrices”, composed of potential capacities for making sense of the multiple worlds and virtual/becoming spaces that bodies occupy.

REFERENCES

Manning, E. (2016). The Minor Gesture. Duke University Press.

Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of affect. Polity.

McCormack, D.P. (2013). Refrains for Moving Bodies: Experience and Experiment in Affective Spaces. Duke University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822377559