Of fillings and feelings: locating affect, attention, and vagueness

The article discusses the location of affect in human experience by situating the concept in relation to attention and to different degrees of propositional structuring. By bringing together extended mind theories, the affect philosophies of Spinoza and Deleuze, and Whitehead’s theory of intensities, the article seeks to mediate between different strands of affect theory; especially between what has been termed ‘non-representational’ theories of affect and those that couple affective processes with intentional and perceptual contents. The article will end by discussing vagueness as an important empirical interface in both trajectories of theorizing affect.