The way we conceive the human today is particularly affected by the shifts in media technology during the 20th century. Affect emerges as the new liminal concept that renders the body compatible in novel ways with the technology and politics of media. By ways of a relational reorganization the organic end technological life is condensed in a new, intense way to an ecology of affects.

Marie-Luise Angerer is a professor of Media Studies at the University of Potsdam. The focus of her research is on media technology, affect and neuroscientific reformulations of desire and sexuality. Her most recent publications include Desire After Affect (2014, German original 2007), Choreographie - Medien - Gender (with Yvonne Hardt and Anna-Carolin Weber, 2013), Timing of Affect: Epistemologies, Aesthetics, Politics (with Bernd Bösel and Michaela Ott, 2014), numerous articles in books and journals on the topic of posthumanism and affective politics.