(…) a number of thinkers has adopted affect as a strategy not just of deconstruction, but also of reconstruction, as an orientation, or promise, that may alter not only our experience of life, but also ‘living’ itself. those thinkers appear to reclaim for themselves a relationship to an ideal ‘reality’ of unity , coherence and truth that they nevertheless realize is forever beyond their recognition and reach, that they realize cannot exist.

(timotheus vermeulen , ‘now & beyond’)