Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Publication Title

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics

First Page

1

Last Page

23

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10076-011-0010-7

Abstract

As affective labor is becoming more dominant in contemporary capitalism, the affect of the body politic is increasingly important. This article argues for a theory of the affective state apparatus to account for the state‟s role in governing the affect of the population. An analysis of George W. Bush‟s Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America reveals that an affective state apparatus functions to capture, constitute, and circulate the affects of the population. This article contends that an affective state apparatus operates through the very intimacies of our bodies in order to produce ever more efficient and productive capitalist subjects.

Rights

Originally published by DeGruyter in Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2011, Volume 4, Issue 2. DOI: 10.2478/v10076-011-0010-7. Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly credited.

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