Due to the dissatisfaction generated by the predominant modes of analysis in the humanities in the 1990s, the so-called "affective turn" emerged, from which philosophy and social theory began to articulate approaches to the field of affects and emotions with which contemporary experience is configured. This general framework acquires specificity in the intersection with problems of visual culture in the celebration of the capacity of affects to challenge deconstruction, claiming, precisely, the hegemonic character of semiotic and deconstructionist approaches. The affective approach offers, then, a new critical trajectory to cultural theory in which the work of authors such as Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovic, Jonathan Flatley, Claire Hemmings and Brian Massumi, among many others, is inscribed. The unpublished translations in Spanish and also the original contributions of Argentine authors that make up this book are inscribed in these frameworks.