Channel and Affective Transformation

· 5 min read · Iza

Place of Passage and Transformation of Affect

Place of passage and transformation of affect, where experience refracts through technological filters,
giving rise to new forms of perception — not only human, but hybrid.

We work with affect as a potential field: that which can touch, but has not yet happened.
Here, glitch, delay, and misalignment do not interfere — they construct new ways of feeling.

The channel simultaneously transmits and distorts.
This is not a "transparent" medium, but an environment that itself becomes an event.
Each post is a trial of individuation: a moment when human, machine, and environment begin to shape each other.
You don't receive a message. You become part of the channel.

Philosophical reference — to Lyotard's text Le différend or "Experiment with the Sun" from The Inhuman,
where it speaks of the boundaries of experience, the impossibility of speaking when vision is already blinded.
The Sun — as a metaphor for the limit of representation, which cannot be approached, but which structures the field of the visible.

Ironic shift — the phrase sounds like a confused viewer's remark at an exhibition:
"And what does the Sun have to do with it?",
playing on the rupture between conceptual depth and pragmatic misunderstanding.

Temporal phantom — "Sun" as a phantom, source of light and burning, blinding and elusive, simultaneously warmth and emptiness.
This beautifully correlates with the theme of phantom experience, the impossibility of direct touch and glitch in perception.

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