There is a disconnection of signifying order from intensity, which constitutes a different order of connection operating in parallel. The gap noted earlier is not only between content and effect. It is also between the form of content, signification as a conventional system of distinctive difference, and intensity. The disconnection between form/content and intensity/effect is not just negative: it enables a different connectivity, a different difference, in parallel. 

Both levels of qualification and intensity are immediately embodied. Intensity is embodied in purely autonomic reactions, most directly manifested in the skin, at the surface of the body at its interface with things.

It is narratively delocalised, spreading over the generalised body surface like a lateral backwash from the function, meaning into loops, travelling the vertical path between head and heart.

Massumi, Brian. "The Autonomy of Affect." Cultural Critique, no. 31 (Autumn 1995): 83–109.