Bodies, Affects, Politics. Steve Pile

back on Rancière’s terrain, the aesthetic. However, we are now attending to the indeterminacy of bodies, affects and politics that arises from the dynamics and disruptions of the aesthetic unconscious. This brings us full circle, back to the politics of bodies and affects that emerge from the clash between bodily regimes. However, what we now know (from the chapters within the book) is that these clashes emerge not just from the split between thought and non‐thought (etc.), not solely from the coexistence of different forms of splitting (i.e. the coexistence of distributions of the sensible, of bodily regimes), but from the movement along, across and between them. With this idea, it will be possible to return to Grenfell (in the Conclusion in Chapter 8) to think once more about the interweaving of bodies, affects and politics.

      The next two chapters focus on skin, both as an overdetermined location where identity, difference and experience are seemingly settled and known, but also where class, race, gender, sexuality and the relationships between them are revealed to be mutable and indeterminate.