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...Beyond folie à deux...

Milutinović-Bojanić Sanja (University of Rijeka, Academy of Applied Arts, CAS SEE, Rijeka, Croatia)

In this text I attempt to recognize and identify two conditions that make engagement possible. One certainly refers to the word, while the other is inscribed onto the body - every or any body - and it regards affect. I illustrate the first condition by a brief reading of a poem by Samuel Beckett, whose English translation the author dedicated to his friend and long-term collaborator, Joseph Chaikin. The second condition I place into Spinoza’s, that is, Deleuze’s understanding of affect.

Keywords: word, affect, body, engagement, context, situation