--- title: "4 Steven Shaviro Quotes - Famous Philosopher" description: "American cultural critic... | Steven Shaviro is an American academic, philosopher, and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98b/steven-shaviro-67313_cinema_films-and-music-videos-like-other-media_71804.jpg" --- # Steven Shaviro (1954) Philosopher **4** quotes in **8** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Steven Shaviro is a philosopher. ## Quick Facts About Steven Shaviro Born April 3, 1954 Profession Philosopher ## About Steven Shaviro American cultural critic... \| Steven Shaviro is an American academic, philosopher, and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time, science fiction, panpsychism, capitalism, affect and subjectivity. He earned a B.A. in English in 1975, M.A. in English in 1978, and a Ph.D. in English in 1981, all from Yale U ## Quotes by Steven Shaviro > [“Films and music videos, like other media works, are machines for generating affect, and for capitalizing upon, or extracting value from, this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-shaviro/films-and-music-videos-like-other-media-works-are-machines-for/) [Steven Shaviro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-shaviro/) [Cinema](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cinema/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98b/steven-shaviro-67313_cinema_films-and-music-videos-like-other-media_71804.jpg) > [“A map does not just replicate the shape of a territory; rather, it actively inflects and works over that territory.7 Films and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-shaviro/a-map-does-not-just-replicate-the-shape-of-a-territory-rather-it/) [Steven Shaviro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-shaviro/) [Geography](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/geography/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f69/steven-shaviro-67313_music_a-map-does-not-just-replicate-the-shape_1966200.jpg) > [ “\[Walmart\]s largest innovation consists in getting rid of the central Fordist principle of paying the workers enough so that they can afford… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-shaviro/walmart-s-largest-innovation-consists-in-getting-rid-of-the-central/) [Steven Shaviro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-shaviro/) [America](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/america/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a97/steven-shaviro-67313_america_walmart-s-largest-innovation-consists-in_2384415.jpg) > [“For Massumi, affect is primary, non-conscious, asubjective or presubjective, asignifying, unqualified, and intensive; while emotion is derivative, conscious, qualified, and meaningful, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-shaviro/for-massumi-affect-is-primary-non-conscious-asubjective-or/) [Steven Shaviro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-shaviro/) [Affect](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affect/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/212/steven-shaviro-67313_affect_for-massumi-affect-is-primary-non-consci_2578560.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-shaviro/#itemlist", "name": "Steven Shaviro Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Films and music videos, like other media works, are machines for generating affect, and for capitalizing upon, or extracting value from, this affect. As such, they are not ideological superstructures, as an older sort of Marxist criticism would have it. Rather, they lie at the very heart of social production, circulation, and distribution. 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Instead, WalMart has pioneered the inverse principle: paying the workers so little that they cannot afford to shop anywhere other than at WalMart. It might even be said, not too hyperbolically, that WalMart has singlehandedly preserved the American economy from total collapse, in that their lowered prices are the only thing that has allowed millions of the “working poor” to retain the status of consumers at all, rather than falling into the “black hole” of total immiseration. 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Emotion is affect captured by a subject, or tamed and reduced to the extent that it becomes commensurate with that subject. 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