Sentence examples for immaterial affect from inspiring English sources

Whereas Badiou merely ignored the collaborative works with Guattari, Zizek 2003 conducts a polemic against the Guattari collaborations in favor of a Deleuzean logic of Being characterized as an "immaterial affect generated by interacting bodies as a sterile surface of pure Becoming" (as in Logic of Sense).

But he was driven to the apparent absurdity of denying causality by his desperation to solve the problem that Descartes couldn't: How can immaterial mind affect material bodies, and vice versa?

Second, the materialistic world-view underlying neo-Darwinian writings often privileges the objective over the subjective, ignoring mind, intention and consciousness as immune to objective analysis, and too immaterial to affect the material world.

The question of how the immaterial mind affects the material body remains a thorny philosophical problem, but on a practical level, "our understanding of the brain-body dialogue has made jaw-dropping advances in the last decade or two," says Raison.

If the reality of property dualism is not to be denied, but the problem of how the immaterial is to affect the material is to be avoided, then epiphenomenalism may seem to be the answer.

He resumes the scholastic species theory: immaterial species radiate from the sensible things and affect the sense organs by acting firstly on the "forecourts" and then on the internal functions.

So presence as an artist is really a manipulation of elements to get to a materiality that affects the immaterial.

Since individual beings were dynamic composites of a material substrate and an immaterial and eternal form (eidos), the accidental differentiation of the substantial form in individuals did not affect the metaphysical endurance of the species.

This should not affect alignment-based measures of sequence similarity where the distribution of conserved and non-conserved sites is immaterial but could affect these BLAST-based methods and should be investigated further.

It would be scary, but I think it would end up being immaterial just because there are so many people with this problem, it's such a real need someone else taking half of the market isn't going to materially affect what we do".

Toni Negri and I argue that immaterial or biopolitical production is emerging in that hegemonic position – the production of ideas, information, images, knowledges, code, languages, social relationships, affects and the like.