This chapter is a meditation (what Nietzsche would call “untimely”—since it is out of season with thoughts now) on affect. Affect is other ways of knowing: it is a resistance to any “monologic,” an insurrection against logic itself. Comprised of heterogeneous singularities, the essay is not an undoing of affect by calculatory reason, but an unshallowing of affect through materialist meditation and its mediations… materialist not in the matterist sense to which affect is conventionally bound but in the sense of labour and its complex, dialectical relations. A form of “parology” (Lyotard), the essay is at once a breaking of rules and a pathway beyond them.