An Affect (n.) is a witness beyond suspicion, being wholly what it is, testifying only to itself, manifesting itself as the very pain or pleasure that bear witness to themselves in the signal that manifests them as they happen.
The Affect (n.) is immediately its manifestation. The affect is a tautogerical sign: Pain and pleasure immediately signal themselves, their presence. This signal (the non-signifying voice or phonè) must be distinguished from the sign (i.e. Language).
An Affect (n.) is not something that represents or signifies. Rather it is a tone or an inflection which preserves the absolutely singular nuances of the pain/pleasure that it is. It says only one thing: That it is there in its absolute singularity.
An Affect (n.) ignores referentiality. It is that which prevents logos from referring it to any object. If i'm stabbed, the intensity of its happening suspends any articulation of cause and effect. I may 'know' that a knife has caused the pain that I feel in my finger, but at the point where pain pierces, its very intensity resist letting itself be related to anything outside its absolute now.
An Affect (n.) is that which man owes. One owes the affect... it is a debt that can never be acquitted, it can only be recognized.
An Affect (n.) is the pre-egoic which 'speaks about nothing' and is not about anything. It is not addressed, not referencing, and not signifying.