As a force:
An imperceptible cuff is without scale. It could be infinitesimal or cosmological. Imperceptible cuffs are evidenced by convergences. They are forces that draw or repel bodies through relations in which they converge and disperse only to form new convergences. These convergences are the lint(ings) of the world. Imperceptible cuffs are activities within which bodies take form, objects relate in associations, institutions enact governance and constellations orbit.
As a shift:
Imperceptible cuffing occurs when forces emerge through a shift in the perception of affect. All cuffs, including the imperceptible cuffs of the world, have the capacity to elicit affective experiences. I think that the special quality of imperceptible cuffing arises from its ability to surprise. Not the kind of surprise that shocks the senses, though it could… but the kind of surprise that arises when experiencing the inconceivable. The type of incredulity one feels when experiencing a sudden or extraordinary shifting or slippage in perception. A shift that cannot be un-experienced.
The affective potential of an imperceptible cuff can be experienced as a perceptual shift through a thing, action or event. This mediating object or event is its supplement.
Question:
If the shifting or slippage of imperceptible forces takes place on the threshold of perception by the access to affect through its supplement… is the shift, the cuff? or, are forces the cuff? or both?
This is excellent! Perhaps the knot, from tomorrow's reading, will help. To make the shift perceptible, perhaps a certain quality of knotting must take place. So the cuff would hold in potentia both shiftings and forces but would come into itself through certain qualities of actualization (the knot, perhaps, the line (next week), the punctum (the week after)...
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