UNE GUERRE DES SENSIBILITES. OPACITÉ DES AFFECTS ET CRÉATIONS ÉMOUVANTES
A WAR OF SENSIBILITIES THE OPACITY OF THE AFFECTS AND THE EMOTIONAL CREATIONS

Summary/Abstract: This paper starts from the assumption that there are no affects unless one experiences the opacity of the world. Opacity is the concept designating that what transcends transparency, the insensible, the ineffable, the desire, the parallel spaces, the uncertainty, the gloom, the black matter and the vital abyss. All these parameters are specific to contemporary art production, a sensible field, traversed by floating, vibrant, yet distinctive objects and bodies. This is the context in which “affectology” develops, because one is affected by one’s surrounding world while simultaneously affecting it through one’s own subjective self. This process is best portrayed through scenographic, theatrical, choreographic and videographic performances, as well as through art installations, and presupposes the capturing of forces that transcend shapes and artistic devices; the movement of obscure images (Ackerman), uncertain spectra (Ceylan), medium swirls (Munoz), violent emotions (M. Stuart, J. Fabre) and radical incongruity (Gombrowicz, Castelluci) represent aesthetic, social and existential models of a sensitive war machine set in a global standardization of perceptions and affections.Consequently, this article formulates a singular anthropology built through resonances and reverberations and which is regarded as a method of restoring a paradoxical aesthetic of contemporary world.

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