This book seeks to understand the coexistence of bodily regimes and the politics that emerge from the clash between them:
Presents a novel conceptual model for understanding the relationship between bodies and affects
Reworks Rancière's notions of the distribution of the sensible and the aesthetic unconscious
Establishes a dynamic and multiple understanding of the repressive, distributive and communicative unconscious by rethinking Freudian psychoanalysis
Utilizes a variety of empirical materials, from Hollywood movies to Freud's case studies
Sets its argument about politics within the context of significant social events to ensure its conceptual and empirical material is relevant to the contemporary political moment