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The Affect Theory Reader

Autor Melissa Gregg, Gregory J. Seigworth
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 noi 2010
This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. Major thinkers theorize affect: visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing that can serve to drive us toward movement, thought and ever-changing forms of relation. As Lauren Berlant explores “cruel optimism,” Brian Massumi theorizes the affective logic of public threat, and Elspeth Probyn examines shame, they, along with the other contributors, show how an awareness of affect is opening up exciting new insights in disciplines from anthropology, cultural studies, geography, and psychology to philosophy, queer studies, and sociology. In essays diverse in subject matter, style and perspective, the contributors demonstrate how affect theory illuminates the intertwined realms of the aesthetic, the ethical and the political as they play out across bodies (human and non-human) in both mundane and extraordinary ways. They reveal the broad theoretical possibilities opened by an awareness of affect as they reflect on topics including ethics, food, public morale, glamour, snark in the workplace and mental health regimes. The Affect Theory Reader includes an interview with the cultural theorist Lawrence Grossberg and an afterword by the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart. In the introduction, the editors suggest ways of defining affect, trace the concept’s history and highlight the role of affect theory in various areas of study. Contributors; Sara Ahmed; Ben Anderson; Lauren Berlant; Lone Bertelsen; Steven D. Brown; Patricia Ticineto Clough; Anna Gibbs; Melissa Gregg; Lawrence Grossberg; Ben Highmore; Brian Massumi; Andrew Murphie; Elspeth Probyn; Gregory J. Seigworth; Kathleen Stewart; Nigel Thrift; Ian Tucker; Megan Watkins
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822347767
ISBN-10: 0822347768
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: 1 photograph
Dimensiuni: 168 x 227 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsAn Inventory of Shimmers / Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa GreggPart I. Impingements1. Happy Objects / Sara Ahmed; 2. The Future Birth of the Affective Fact: The Political Ontology of Threat / Brian Massumi; 3. Writing Shame / Elspeth ProbynPart II. Aesthetics and the Everyday4. Cruel Optimism / Lauren Berlant; 5. Bitter after Taste: Affect, Food, and Social Aesthetics / Ben Highmore; 6. An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers: Félix Guattari on Affect and the Refrain / Lone Bertlesen and Andrew MurphiePart III. Incorporeal/Inorganic7. Modulating the Excess of Affect: Morale in a State of “Total War” / Ben Anderson; 8. After Affect: Sympathy, Synchrony, and Mimetic Communication / Anna Gibbs; 9. The Affective Turn: Political Economy, Biomedia, and Bodies / Patricia T. CloughPart IV. Managing Affects10. Eff the Ineffable: Affect, Somatic Management, and Mental Health Service Users / Steven D. Brown and Ian Tucker; 11. On Friday Night Drinks: Workplace Affects in the Age of the Cubicle / Melissa Gregg; 12. Desiring Recognition, Accumulating Affect / Megan WatkinsPart V. After Affect13. Understanding the Material Practices of Glamour / Nigel Thrift; 14. Affect’s Future: Rediscovering the Virtual in the Actual / Lawrence Grossberg (An Interview with Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg)Afterword. Worlding Refrains / Kathleen StewartReferences; Contributors; Index

Recenzii

"While a reader of the book might be left less rather than more sure of what precisely constitutes ‘affect theory’, or even affect itself, s/he is nevertheless very likely to be moved by the range of both thought and affective styles that make up the volume and constitute what the editors call in the introduction, an ‘inventory of shimmers’ (p11). This incitement to ‘more than discourse’, the capacity ‘to touch, to move, to mobilise readers’ (p24) is exactly what one would hope for from a reader of affect theory, and is what the contributions that make up this collection indeedachieve." Michael Goddard, New Formations

"The Affect Theory Reader shows how affect can be deployed in a range of frameworks, including the neurological, psychological, social, cultural, philosophical and political, and that there is room for debate among these various fields – above all between the Deleuze-inspired writings of Brian Massumi and his followers and those of the more scientifically minded followers of Eve Sedgwick, whose work was formulated in dialogue with affect psychologist Silvan Tomkins" Todd Cronan, Radical Philosophy, March 2012

"The Affect Theory Reader is unique. It gathers interesting and provocative articles on affect by well-known theorists and suggestively brings to expression the productive divergence between different philosophical and psychological positions on the subject.” Erin Manning, author of Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty

"Written by some of the most interesting and important thinkers in the field, the essays in this superb collection prove how any serious consideration of culture and politics needs to involve serious attention to affect. The Affect Theory Reader covers remarkable ground: from the ontology of ‘future threat’ in Bush’s pre-emptive politics to the management of workplace affects in the information economy; from the biology of human mimicry to attachments to promises of the ‘good life’ that often cruelly wear out economically precarious subjects. Thoughtfully curated and genuinely interdisciplinary with contributors from fields ranging from media studies to geography, Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth’s reader will be indispensable to anyone working in or adjacent to affect theory.” Sianne Ngai, author of Ugly Feelings


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A collection of essays on affect theory by groundbreaking scholars in the field