Affect may too readily be equated with emotion. Emotions are certainly part of affect, but are only part of it. Something much broader is implied: a way of attending to the world (or not attending to it), a way of relating to the world (or not relating to it), a stance, a disposition, towards the world – ultimately a ‘way of being’ in the world. The point is that for the world to ‘presence’ to us we already have to have adopted a disposition of our consciousness toward it, and the disposition determines the value, including the situation in which we preclude it having value. Such a stance is
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