The Affect Theory Reader 2
Worldings, Tensions, Futures
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2023
496 pages
978-1-4780-2720-1 (ISBN)
Description
Building on the foundational The Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect theory.
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10/2023
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Gregory J. Seigworth is Professor of Communication and Theatre at Millersville University.
Carolyn Pedwell is Professor of Cultural Studies and Media at the University of Kent.
Carolyn Pedwell is Professor of Cultural Studies and Media at the University of Kent.
Content
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: A Shimmer of Inventories / Gregory J. Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell 1
Part One. Tensions, In Solution
1. The Elements of Affect Theories / Derek P. McCormack 63
2. Ambiguous Affect: Excitements That Make the Self / Susanna Paasonen 85
3. Tomkins in Tension / Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson 103
4. Affect and Affirmation / Tyrone S. Palmer 122
5. Unfuckology: Affectability, Temporality, and Unleashing the Sex/Gender Binary / Kyla Schuller 141
Part Two. Minor Feelings and the Sensorial Possibilities of Form
6. Minor Feelings and the Affective Life of Race / Ann Cvetkovich 161
7. Resisting the Enclosure of Trans Affective Commons / Hil Malatino 179
8. Too Thick Love, or Bearing the Unbearable / Rizvana Bradley 191
9. Migration: An Intimacy / Omar Kasmani 214
Part Three. Unlearning and the Conditions of Arrival
10. Unlearning Affect / M. Gail Hamner 233
11. Why This? Affective Pedagogy in the Wake / Nathan Snaza 255
12. The Feeling of Knowing Music / Dylan Robinson and Patrick Nickleson 273
Part Four. The Matter of Experience, or, Reminding Consciousness of Its Necessary Modesty
13. Nonconscious Affect: Cognitive, Embodied, or Nonbifurcated Experience? / Tony D. Sampson 295
14. Catch an Incline: The Impersonality of the Minor / Erin Manning 315
15. Emotions and Affects of Convolution / Lisa Blackman 326
16. Haunting Voices: Affective Atmospheres as Transtemporal Contact / Cecilia Macón 347
Part Five. A Living Laboratory: Glitching the Affective Reproduction of the Social
17. The Affective Reproduction of Capital: Two Returns to Spinoza / Jason Read 367
18. Algorithmic Governance and Racializing Affect / Ezekiel Dixon-Román 384
19. Dividual Economies, of Data, of Flesh / Jasbir K. Puar 406
20. Algorithmic Trauma / Michael Richardson 423
Coda 447
A Note / Kathleen Stewart 449
Poisonality / Lauren Berlant 451
Contributors 465
Index 471
Introduction: A Shimmer of Inventories / Gregory J. Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell 1
Part One. Tensions, In Solution
1. The Elements of Affect Theories / Derek P. McCormack 63
2. Ambiguous Affect: Excitements That Make the Self / Susanna Paasonen 85
3. Tomkins in Tension / Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson 103
4. Affect and Affirmation / Tyrone S. Palmer 122
5. Unfuckology: Affectability, Temporality, and Unleashing the Sex/Gender Binary / Kyla Schuller 141
Part Two. Minor Feelings and the Sensorial Possibilities of Form
6. Minor Feelings and the Affective Life of Race / Ann Cvetkovich 161
7. Resisting the Enclosure of Trans Affective Commons / Hil Malatino 179
8. Too Thick Love, or Bearing the Unbearable / Rizvana Bradley 191
9. Migration: An Intimacy / Omar Kasmani 214
Part Three. Unlearning and the Conditions of Arrival
10. Unlearning Affect / M. Gail Hamner 233
11. Why This? Affective Pedagogy in the Wake / Nathan Snaza 255
12. The Feeling of Knowing Music / Dylan Robinson and Patrick Nickleson 273
Part Four. The Matter of Experience, or, Reminding Consciousness of Its Necessary Modesty
13. Nonconscious Affect: Cognitive, Embodied, or Nonbifurcated Experience? / Tony D. Sampson 295
14. Catch an Incline: The Impersonality of the Minor / Erin Manning 315
15. Emotions and Affects of Convolution / Lisa Blackman 326
16. Haunting Voices: Affective Atmospheres as Transtemporal Contact / Cecilia Macón 347
Part Five. A Living Laboratory: Glitching the Affective Reproduction of the Social
17. The Affective Reproduction of Capital: Two Returns to Spinoza / Jason Read 367
18. Algorithmic Governance and Racializing Affect / Ezekiel Dixon-Román 384
19. Dividual Economies, of Data, of Flesh / Jasbir K. Puar 406
20. Algorithmic Trauma / Michael Richardson 423
Coda 447
A Note / Kathleen Stewart 449
Poisonality / Lauren Berlant 451
Contributors 465
Index 471
