... activity. The turn to “affect” enables discussion of the important question of the appeal of works of art, of the emotional and subjective aspects of our encounter with them. These are questions often ... as the importance of affect in aesthetic encounters), I am very wary of the motives behind and the consequences of the abandonment of mediations. In Defence of Sociology: Aesthetics in the ... legitimately, I think of them as linked: the turn to affect, the return to phenomenology, the discussion of “presence” in aesthetic experience, new theories of materiality and of the agency of objects,...