Bertelsen and Murphie's Definition of 'Affect' and Roosevelt's Argument on Freedom

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Lone Bertelsen and Andrew Murphie
While there are different definitions of affect, the authors mention “power to affect and be affected to refer to the concept. When images are repeated they have an effect on people, and this has been used in politics to emphasize certain views. The authors also explore refrains and Fйlix Guattari’s ‘‘logic of affects,’’ whereby Guattari argued that repetition neutralizes the positive affects, which he called the refrains. This is relevant to understanding politics since where there are battles over the refrain territories to influence.
Lone and Murphie do not clearly differentiate between the emotions/ feelings from the affect, while they focus on the impact of refrains on the positive affects, but barely look into negative affects repetitions of negative affects like trauma have profound impact on a person, but people express their feelings differently and there is no definitive way to evaluate the subjective experiences. Even if refrains are affects ‘‘cycled back’’, the sociocultural factors and context influence how people interpret the repeated images and depictions.
How do memories influence perceptions about affects?
How does information flow affect affective intensity and influence discourse?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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