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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:The Music Origins of Contemporary Affect Theory
DESCRIPTION:This talk traces a genealogy of affect theory from the ear
 ly modern era through to the present day\, establishing the c
 entral significance of music for this history.  It demonstr
 ates that the theory of affect we have inherited today has i
 ts origins in eighteenth-century aesthetic debates concernin
 g music’s capacity to function as a sign and to move its l
 isteners.  In the early modern era\, the affects were import
 ant components of an elaborate semiotic system that sought t
 o explain the impact of art.  Today\, by stark contrast\, aff
 ect is often explicitly opposed to theories of the sign and 
 of representation\; theorists describe affect as corporeal an
 d immediate\, working on our autonomic systems.  The genealo
 gy elaborated in this paper shows how affect theories becam
 e separated from theories of representation\, and it illustra
 tes the central and surprising role that music played in thi
 s separation. 
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