ABSTRACT
Building on discussions of Whitehead’s philosophy in the previous chapter, Chapter 6 develops a more-than-human theory of affect as the basis for trans-qualitative studies of subjectivity and learning. Working with a small group of cultural studies’ students to explore the felt transitions between memory and place, the chapter draws on Whitehead’s notions of living and non-living societies to explore the interstices and differentials between biomorphic and geomorphic modes of affectivity. Extending considerations of qualitative feeling and concern to astronomical and meteorological affects (including the movements of comets and dust vortexes), the last section of the chapter pursues a cosmological account of affectivity that does not rely on human subjectivity or consciousness as its point of reference.
