Affecting Knowledge: Severo Sarduy’s “Simulation” and the potential of the affective dimension for theory

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Media Studies (MA)

Verstappen, Loes (2019)

Affecting Knowledge: Severo Sarduy’s “Simulation” and the potential of the affective dimension for theory

Master thesis | Media Studies (MA)

The main issue that this thesis aims to address is the marginalised position of the affective dimension in theoretical texts or the academic form. By means of an exploration into Severo Sarduy’s essay “Simulation” (La Simulacíon, 1982), this thesis aims to demonstrate the potential that lies in the employment of the affective dimension in theoretical writing- and reading processes. The analysis focuses on affective strategies in Sarduy’s essay or, in other words, the means in which the reader is incorporated into the text to fulfill an important role in the making of meaning of the text. This thesis aims to emphasise the ways in which the affective dimension is utilised to communicate the ontological perspective of Sarduy’s text as well as it aspires to show how these affective strategies have the ability to criticise and to mobilise change by providing a different kind of knowledge in academic discourses.

Posthuman critical theory