Shards that Make your Fingers Bleed

Abstract

This article engages with the theme of this volume in multiple ways, attesting to the potency of “in-betwenness” in philosophical and political academic writing. In-betweenness can take many shapes and can be examined in terms of its loss as well as in terms of a possible recuperation of it. The article parts from a theoretical concern with the spaces in-between two important strands within the continental canon of philosophy which are sometimes presented as mutually contradictory: critical theory and theories of affect. It seeks to elucidate the points of contact between the two, and the ways in which they can complement each other when applied to the study of digital media and the way they have become incorporated in mobilization strategies. Its object of investigation is the ongoing decimation of the Palestinian population by the Israeli Defence Forces, and the way this has been transmitted to the writer over the course of the past year.