Sentient Subjects
Post-humanist Perspectives on Affect
1st Edition
Published on 27. December 2020
142 pages
978-1-000-33325-1 (ISBN)
Description
Non-cognitive expressions of the life of the subject - feeling, motion, tactility, instinct, automatism, and sentience - have transformed how scholars understand subjectivity, agency and identity. This collection investigates the critical purchase of the idiom of affect in this 'post-humanist' thinking of the subject. It also explores political and ethical questions raised by the deployment of affect as a theoretical and artistic category.
Together the contributors to this collection map the theoretically heterogeneous field of post-humanist scholarship on affect, making inspiring, and at times surprising, connections between Spinoza's and Tomkins's theories of affect, the concept of affect and psychoanalysis, and affect and animal studies in art and literature. As a result, the concepts, vocabulary, compatibility, and attribution of affect are challenged and extended.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.
Together the contributors to this collection map the theoretically heterogeneous field of post-humanist scholarship on affect, making inspiring, and at times surprising, connections between Spinoza's and Tomkins's theories of affect, the concept of affect and psychoanalysis, and affect and animal studies in art and literature. As a result, the concepts, vocabulary, compatibility, and attribution of affect are challenged and extended.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-000-33325-1 (9781000333251)
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Persons
Gerda Roelvink is interdisciplinary scholar located in human geography. She is the author of Building Dignified Worlds (Minnesota UP) and co-editor of Making Other Worlds Possible (Minnesota UP). She has also co-edited, with Dr Magdalena Zolkos, two special issues for the journals Angelaki and Emotion, Space and Society.
Magdalena Zolkos works across the fields of political theory, cultural studies and philosophy, currently as Humboldt Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She is the author of Restitution and the Politics of Repair: Tropes, Imaginaries, Theory (Edinburgh UP) and co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankelevitch: On What Cannot Be Touched (Lexington).
Magdalena Zolkos works across the fields of political theory, cultural studies and philosophy, currently as Humboldt Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She is the author of Restitution and the Politics of Repair: Tropes, Imaginaries, Theory (Edinburgh UP) and co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankelevitch: On What Cannot Be Touched (Lexington).
Content
1. Posthumanist Perspectives on Affect: Framing the Field
Gerda Roelvink and Magdalena Zolkos
2. Affective Ethologies: Monk Parakeets and Non-Human Inflections in Affect Theory
Ada Smailbegovic
3. Mimesis as a Mode of Knowing: Vision and Movement in the Aesthetic Practice of Jean Painleve
Anna Gibbs
4. Losing Steam After Marx and Freud: On Entropy as the Horizon of the Community to Come
Karyn Ball
5. Insect Affects: The Big and Small of the Entomological Imagination in Childhood
Stephen Loo and Undine Sellbach
6. A War Long Forgotten: Feeling the Past in an English Country Village
Emma Waterton and Steve Watson
7. "My Name Is Danny": Indigenous Animation as Hyper-Realism
Jennifer L. Biddle
8. Affect: An Unworkable Concept
Maria Hynes and Scott Sharpe
Gerda Roelvink and Magdalena Zolkos
2. Affective Ethologies: Monk Parakeets and Non-Human Inflections in Affect Theory
Ada Smailbegovic
3. Mimesis as a Mode of Knowing: Vision and Movement in the Aesthetic Practice of Jean Painleve
Anna Gibbs
4. Losing Steam After Marx and Freud: On Entropy as the Horizon of the Community to Come
Karyn Ball
5. Insect Affects: The Big and Small of the Entomological Imagination in Childhood
Stephen Loo and Undine Sellbach
6. A War Long Forgotten: Feeling the Past in an English Country Village
Emma Waterton and Steve Watson
7. "My Name Is Danny": Indigenous Animation as Hyper-Realism
Jennifer L. Biddle
8. Affect: An Unworkable Concept
Maria Hynes and Scott Sharpe
