Affect binds individuals to the power that subjects them.

Evidence

Insofar as Butler reinscribes a discourse of affect (“passionate attachments”) into the workings of power, political and other, my discussion of Kant is an attempt to follow her important gesture. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1153

Categorization

• XREF: Connects Butler’s ‘passionate attachments’ in The Psychic Life of Power to the Kant chapter’s account of how the enemy relation is affectively constituted. — connects to: Controlling water supplies enables control over the people who depend on them — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1527; Power steers emotions to govern action below conscious awareness — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 110; Mandated self-expression makes affective demands on Control-society workers — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 84