ABSTRACT
The fathers of affect theory, French theorists Deleuze and Guattari famously describe affects in French as "asubjectifs", as beyond subjectivity. As the potential for being affected, affect allows for the potential brokenness of bounded or solidified forms of masculinity in ways that cannot be predicted in advance or be controlled or managed. Masculinity can operate through a planned performance because it has previously been assailed affectively. Affect may be transmitted forward in time and have an effect on gender in a future time frame as potentiality is realized in unpredictable ways. The effects of the masculinity of affect may create a gendered becoming later in another seemingly unrelated scene with a seemingly unrelated character who does not embody normative masculinity or even masculinity at all. The transmission of affect may be a counterattack on masculinity when a male subject is taken as discrete and bordered or as non-dialogic.
