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Fibreculture Journal 2012
FCJ-149 Affect and Care in Intimate TransactionsKeywords: affect , co-affective , installation art , interaction design , transactivity , digital art , networked art , ecology and art , Bracha Ettinger , Felix Guattari , Brian Massumi Abstract: This article considers the ‘co-affective’ power of the new media artwork Intimate Transactions. This co-affective power operates at the ‘trans-subjective’ level of experience. In order to explore this level of experience the article draws on the work of Brian Massumi, Bracha Ettinger and Felix Guattari amongst others. For these thinkers the ‘trans-subjective’ level of experience, precisely because it is ‘co-affective’, holds ethical potential. The article argues for the importance of tending to ‘co-affective’ level of experience – both in designing “interactive” art, such as Intimate Transactions, and in life more generally.
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