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This chapter considers what affect can offer as another mode of understanding the workings of the Earth. Affective fields are explored through the lens of creativity and the role of art in the production and implementation of identity and reason. Ultimately, the values that underwrite measures are considered as systems of thought that define the features of our shared world. The chapter introduces the term æffect (affect plus effect) to demonstrate the way one system of measure (the search for invariance and causality signalled by “effect”) is made to pass through and enter into relation with another measure (the production of experiences punctuated by “affects”). This term becomes a way to attend to the complexity and interconnection of closed systems of meaning and open systems of life.
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Barry, K., Keane, J. (2019). Affective Measures. In: Creative Measures of the Anthropocene. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9648-9_4
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