Gilles DeleuzeThinkers

An Affect is a being whose validity lies in itself and exceeds man so much so that we might say that it exists in the absence of man.

An Affect is a nonhuman becoming of man captured in cezanne's notion that not a 'minute of the world passes that we will preserve if we do not 'become that minute.

Affect is a quality power which can be grasped either as actualized in a state of things or expressed by a face.

An Affect is a relay, an intermediary zone, or skin of contact, between the other and one's own body, between two moments in time, between the 'no longer' and the 'not yet'.

An Affect is an uprooting of one from one's humanity, if only for an instant, throwing the self into upheaval as one scrape at one's bread like a rodent or giving one the yellow eyes of a feline.

An Affect is capable of going beyond feeling. Captain ahab does not merely imitate moby dick or reflect him, rather he can be said to enter into a state of becoming with him which is something more than resemblance, but more like a light in the distance that captures both of them in a single reflection.

The Affect is impersonal... independent of all determinate space-time... but it is nonetheless created in a history which produces it as the expressed and the expression of a space or a time, of an epoch or a milieu.

An Affect is, in art, feeling which exceeds itself and is of such solidity that, for example, Caude Simon can sculpt an affect of clay.

An Affect is not a feeling. It goes beyond the strength of those who undergo them and could in fact be said to exist in the absence of man, because man, as he is caught in stone, on the canvas, or by words, is himself a compound of affects.

An Affect is not a personal feeling, but the ability to affect and to be affected at a distance... not a transformation but a passing over.

An Affect is not the passage from one lived state to another but a non-human becoming in man such that we might say, along with cezanne, that not a minute of the world passes that we will preserve if we do not become that minute.

An Affect is singular because it has no reason or justification, no order or relation outside itself.

An Affect is registered as stimuli in feelings, moods, and sentiments, which are its subordinate sensations