The Affect Theory Reader
1st Edition
Published on 12. November 2010
416 pages
978-0-8223-9304-7 (ISBN)
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A field-defining collection that consolidates thinking and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies.
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Melissa Gregg works in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is the author of Cultural Studies' Affective Voices.Gregory J. Seigworth is a professor in communication and theater at Millersville University in Pennsylvania.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
An Inventory of Shimmers / Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg 1
One. Impingements
1. Happy Objects / Sara Ahmed 29
2. The Future Birth of the Affective Fact: The Political Ontology of Threat / Brian Massumi 52
3. Writing Shame / Elspeth Probyn 71
Two. Aesthetics and the Everyday
4. Cruel Optimism / Lauren Berlant 93
5. Bitter after Taste: Affect, Food, and Social Aesthetics / Ben Highmore 118
An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers: Fèlix Guattari on Affect and the Refrain/ Lone Bertelsen and Andrew Murphie 138
Three. Incorporeal/Inorganic
7. Modulating the Excess of Affect: Morale in a State of "Total War" / Ben Anderson 161
8. After Affect: Sympathy, Synchrony, and Mimetic Communication / Anna Gibbs 186
9. The Affective Turn: Political Economy, Biomedia, and Bodies / Patricia T. Clough 206
Four. Managing Affects
10. Eff the Ineffable: Affect, Somatic Management, and Mental Health Service Users / Steven D. Brown and Ian Tucker 229
11. On Friday Night Drinks: Workplace Affects in the Age of the Cubicle / Melissa Gregg 250
12. Desiring Recognition, Accumulating Affect / Megan Watkins 269
Five. After Affect
13. Understanding the Material Practices of Glamour / Nigel Thrift 289
14. Affect's Future: Rediscovering the Virtual in the Actual / Lawrence Grossberg (An Interview with Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg) 309
Afterword. Worlding Refrains / Kathleen Stewart 339
References 355
Contributors 381
Index 385
An Inventory of Shimmers / Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg 1
One. Impingements
1. Happy Objects / Sara Ahmed 29
2. The Future Birth of the Affective Fact: The Political Ontology of Threat / Brian Massumi 52
3. Writing Shame / Elspeth Probyn 71
Two. Aesthetics and the Everyday
4. Cruel Optimism / Lauren Berlant 93
5. Bitter after Taste: Affect, Food, and Social Aesthetics / Ben Highmore 118
An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers: Fèlix Guattari on Affect and the Refrain/ Lone Bertelsen and Andrew Murphie 138
Three. Incorporeal/Inorganic
7. Modulating the Excess of Affect: Morale in a State of "Total War" / Ben Anderson 161
8. After Affect: Sympathy, Synchrony, and Mimetic Communication / Anna Gibbs 186
9. The Affective Turn: Political Economy, Biomedia, and Bodies / Patricia T. Clough 206
Four. Managing Affects
10. Eff the Ineffable: Affect, Somatic Management, and Mental Health Service Users / Steven D. Brown and Ian Tucker 229
11. On Friday Night Drinks: Workplace Affects in the Age of the Cubicle / Melissa Gregg 250
12. Desiring Recognition, Accumulating Affect / Megan Watkins 269
Five. After Affect
13. Understanding the Material Practices of Glamour / Nigel Thrift 289
14. Affect's Future: Rediscovering the Virtual in the Actual / Lawrence Grossberg (An Interview with Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg) 309
Afterword. Worlding Refrains / Kathleen Stewart 339
References 355
Contributors 381
Index 385
