Affect

Affect is usually a verb, commonly meaning to have an effect on something.

Affect and effect 2008

Affect is usually a verb, commonly meaning to have an effect on something.

September « 2008 « Sentence first 2008

Affect is a way of evaluating the world, and it's clearly an integrated system, as far as I'm concerned -- kinaesthetic, psychophysiological, a homeostatic system, a highly cohesive sense of attitudinal orientation.

More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

Affect is a kinaesthetic awareness and processing of our own automatic reactions, a modelling of our own internal state.

The Stain of Sin Hal Duncan 2006

Affect is for me the most general category for talking about how we find ourselves caring about our involvement in particular situations.

Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003

Affect is the power base of every institution worth shit in this world, and they're not going to let it slip out of their hands.

More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

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The 'Affect' Discussion Ben Abraham 2008

I'm with Puchalsky when he's right, he's right in lauding your, and by implication, Bousquet's, attention to the "Affect" issue, which played such a big role in, say, Stimpson's opposition to grad student unionization.

How the University Works 2008

"Affect" is sufficiently descriptive, unless you're going to argue that legal discourse has been thrown off course irrevocably by the existence of blogs.

Today at Stanford Law School: "How Blogs Impact Legal Discourse." Ann Althouse 2007

"Affect," they said, "this is your big chance to have affect," like it was a very big deal even though they didn't explain what we were supposed to be affecting.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003