In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with philosopher Brian Massumi, whom is professor of communication at the University of Montreal, about affect studies, critical theory, the work of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, and process philosophy.  Massumi is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke UP, 2002) and most recently, Couplets: Travels in Speculative Pragmatism (Duke UP, 2021), as well as many other texts, several co-written with his companion in art and thought, Erin Manning, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal).