ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book demonstrates that the flaws and omissions in the discursive landscape surrounding the question of the political in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari are made apparent when confronted with the various regimes of architectural experience associated with the emergent qualities of affect. It focuses on the stoppages and flows of infrastructural affects traversing architectural support systems amid the to and fro of human and non-human encounters. The book then examines J. J. Gibson’s concept of affordance as affiliated with affect and crucial for an “ecological theory of immediate perception that constitutes an alternative to the digital information-processing paradigm”. It also offers a review of “green affect” as experienced and fought for in Stockholm, Sweden, in the context of modernist housing projects and their attendant green areas.
