“Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan” meets “Where is the Rest of Me?”
Affect is confluent with movement, dynamism, and continuity with the contingency that there might be a disconnect, and that disconnect might be (let’s hope) productive. Our experience of this (some)thing is based in the not-yet present, which gives it a sense of immediacy, and this immediacy of experience is intensity which is (a register of) affect.
Affect is all about operationalizing the virtual… but is the difference simply a matter of anticipating the positive or the negative? In calling the positive or negative to arms? On the one hand, in the ‘wrong hands,’ it’s parasitic and opportunistic, on the other, in open-hands-palms-up, it’s an autonomous and an experimental, creative means to move the body… dance, dance revolution style.
I will show the Ronald Reagan “Bear” ad and a clip from King’s Row, and will also circulate JG Ballard’s “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan.”
