Many of the 21st century's most influential critics of affect and emotion have emphasised the per... more Many of the 21st century's most influential critics of affect and emotion have emphasised the persuasive socio-cultural and political power of insecurity and unrest, from Peter Stearns' American Fear (2006) and Brian Massumi's Ontopower (2015), to Ute Frevert's The Politics of Humiliation (2020). Of course, as Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka (2005) has pointed out, for many people this particular affective landscape long pre-dates 2001; for others it has existed at least since colonisation, and for others still, it is embraced as a mode of existence. How useful, then, is the concept of 'upheaval' in contemporary studies of emotion and affect? This special issue has its origins in a symposium on the topic of upheaval in November 2020 hosted by the Affect, Emotion & Society research cluster in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at La Trobe University. Over the course of two days, presenters offered perspectives from cultural studies and the creative arts on states of upheaval. The diversity of presentations is reflected in this special issue, which offers a trans-disciplinary perspective on a range of manifestations of and responses to 'upheaval'-including social, cultural, political, technological, personal and emotional upheavals and their intersections-in recent history. Given the vibrancy of presentations and the liveliness of conversation at the symposium, we believe the term 'upheaval'
The contemporary turn towards 'wildness' and 'rewilding' seeks an intimacy and bewilderment of su... more The contemporary turn towards 'wildness' and 'rewilding' seeks an intimacy and bewilderment of subjecthood. While wildness as a western concept has very problematic histories, in its reclaimed usage, Halberstam and Nyong'o argue that it can also enact an 'anarrangement' of normalised boundaries and categories. Gordon Pask's 1957 chemical computing experiment that spontaneously grew an ear in response to environmental stimulus poses similar questions about the relational volition of matter, confronting not only the artist or scientist's control of their research, but the fundamentally colonial notion of a world composed of discrete parts. This article engages with a critical reading of Halberstam and Nyong'o's writing to propose parallels between their conception of the wild and the science of self-organisation, both of which engage in aspects of decolonial critique through a troubling of the colonial mindset that separates in order to maintain mastery. Pask's experiment suggests the possibility of alternative discourses and practices that emphasise an ethics of relation through techniques of wilding.
What is activated at that joint where time is at once toofast and tooslow? What is felt? Proposit... more What is activated at that joint where time is at once toofast and tooslow? What is felt? Propositions for Social Dreaming, a quilt-based project by Andrew Goodman and Erin Manning, explores this active interval of time in the making by inquiring into the dreams that fissure it. Thoughts swirl from algorithmic potential to the disorder of beds of unmade. Living otherwise is the problematic that moves the thinking, living in modes neurodiverse, in an ethos of minor sociality.
For Donna Haraway, a tentacular life is relational and sticky, a moving-creating-living with that... more For Donna Haraway, a tentacular life is relational and sticky, a moving-creating-living with that is at heart sympoietic and entangled. Wilding, as a speculative pragmatic and ten-tacular practice, involves thinking about the world in ecological terms-that is, neither a world of objects or one of fixed and separated subjects with a distanced perspective of the world. Instead, wilding involves a tactic of embracing an entangled and multi-storied approach to thinking. In this article the question of the possibility of ecological rather than individualized consciousness is speculated upon through the tentacular. Drawing on William James' impersonal conception of consciousness and contemporary biology's insights into the relationality of life and thinking, this paper asks: what would a sympoietic concept of consciousness mean? How would this shift the valuing of intelligences towards activism and allow us to learn from those, human and nonhuman, traditionally denied intellectual value?
Alfred North Whitehead’s brief discussion of the event of ‘one definite note’ emphasises that the... more Alfred North Whitehead’s brief discussion of the event of ‘one definite note’ emphasises that the note itself and the act of listening to this note are, while related, independent events. This article explores Whitehead’s complex understanding of the singular act of listening utilizing a performance of composer Alvin Lucier’s SO YOU (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice) at documenta 2017 to suggest that the anarchival qualities of listening are important. They create complexity and novelty in the world.
Louise Boisclair's interview in Archée with Andrew Goodman about his research and artwork
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Review of Susanna Paasonen , Carnal resonance: Affect and online pornography. Cambridge, MA and L... more Review of Susanna Paasonen , Carnal resonance: Affect and online pornography. Cambridge, MA and London, UK: The MIT Press, 2011.
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Many of the 21st century's most influential critics of affect and emotion have emphasised the per... more Many of the 21st century's most influential critics of affect and emotion have emphasised the persuasive socio-cultural and political power of insecurity and unrest, from Peter Stearns' American Fear (2006) and Brian Massumi's Ontopower (2015), to Ute Frevert's The Politics of Humiliation (2020). Of course, as Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka (2005) has pointed out, for many people this particular affective landscape long pre-dates 2001; for others it has existed at least since colonisation, and for others still, it is embraced as a mode of existence. How useful, then, is the concept of 'upheaval' in contemporary studies of emotion and affect? This special issue has its origins in a symposium on the topic of upheaval in November 2020 hosted by the Affect, Emotion & Society research cluster in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at La Trobe University. Over the course of two days, presenters offered perspectives from cultural studies and the creative arts on states of upheaval. The diversity of presentations is reflected in this special issue, which offers a trans-disciplinary perspective on a range of manifestations of and responses to 'upheaval'-including social, cultural, political, technological, personal and emotional upheavals and their intersections-in recent history. Given the vibrancy of presentations and the liveliness of conversation at the symposium, we believe the term 'upheaval'
The contemporary turn towards 'wildness' and 'rewilding' seeks an intimacy and bewilderment of su... more The contemporary turn towards 'wildness' and 'rewilding' seeks an intimacy and bewilderment of subjecthood. While wildness as a western concept has very problematic histories, in its reclaimed usage, Halberstam and Nyong'o argue that it can also enact an 'anarrangement' of normalised boundaries and categories. Gordon Pask's 1957 chemical computing experiment that spontaneously grew an ear in response to environmental stimulus poses similar questions about the relational volition of matter, confronting not only the artist or scientist's control of their research, but the fundamentally colonial notion of a world composed of discrete parts. This article engages with a critical reading of Halberstam and Nyong'o's writing to propose parallels between their conception of the wild and the science of self-organisation, both of which engage in aspects of decolonial critique through a troubling of the colonial mindset that separates in order to maintain mastery. Pask's experiment suggests the possibility of alternative discourses and practices that emphasise an ethics of relation through techniques of wilding.
What is activated at that joint where time is at once toofast and tooslow? What is felt? Proposit... more What is activated at that joint where time is at once toofast and tooslow? What is felt? Propositions for Social Dreaming, a quilt-based project by Andrew Goodman and Erin Manning, explores this active interval of time in the making by inquiring into the dreams that fissure it. Thoughts swirl from algorithmic potential to the disorder of beds of unmade. Living otherwise is the problematic that moves the thinking, living in modes neurodiverse, in an ethos of minor sociality.
For Donna Haraway, a tentacular life is relational and sticky, a moving-creating-living with that... more For Donna Haraway, a tentacular life is relational and sticky, a moving-creating-living with that is at heart sympoietic and entangled. Wilding, as a speculative pragmatic and ten-tacular practice, involves thinking about the world in ecological terms-that is, neither a world of objects or one of fixed and separated subjects with a distanced perspective of the world. Instead, wilding involves a tactic of embracing an entangled and multi-storied approach to thinking. In this article the question of the possibility of ecological rather than individualized consciousness is speculated upon through the tentacular. Drawing on William James' impersonal conception of consciousness and contemporary biology's insights into the relationality of life and thinking, this paper asks: what would a sympoietic concept of consciousness mean? How would this shift the valuing of intelligences towards activism and allow us to learn from those, human and nonhuman, traditionally denied intellectual value?
Alfred North Whitehead’s brief discussion of the event of ‘one definite note’ emphasises that the... more Alfred North Whitehead’s brief discussion of the event of ‘one definite note’ emphasises that the note itself and the act of listening to this note are, while related, independent events. This article explores Whitehead’s complex understanding of the singular act of listening utilizing a performance of composer Alvin Lucier’s SO YOU (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice) at documenta 2017 to suggest that the anarchival qualities of listening are important. They create complexity and novelty in the world.
Louise Boisclair's interview in Archée with Andrew Goodman about his research and artwork
http:/... more Louise Boisclair's interview in Archée with Andrew Goodman about his research and artwork http://archee.qc.ca/ar.php?page=article&no=505
Review of Susanna Paasonen , Carnal resonance: Affect and online pornography. Cambridge, MA and L... more Review of Susanna Paasonen , Carnal resonance: Affect and online pornography. Cambridge, MA and London, UK: The MIT Press, 2011.
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What might an interactive artwork look like that enabled greater expressive
potential for all of ... more What might an interactive artwork look like that enabled greater expressive potential for all of the components of the event? How can we radically shift our idea of interactivity towards an ecological conception of the term, emphasising the generation of complex relation over the stability of objects and subjects? Gathering Ecologies explores this ethical and political shift in thinking, examining the creative potential of differential relations through key concepts from the philosophies of A.N. Whitehead, Gilbert Simondon and Michel Serres. Utilising detailed examinations of work by artists such as Lygia Clark, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Nathaniel Stern and Joyce Hinterding, the book discusses the creative potential of movement, perception and sensation, interfacing, sound and generative algorithmic design to tune an event towards the conditions of its own ecological emergence
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potential for all of the components of the event? How can we radically
shift our idea of interactivity towards an ecological conception of the term,
emphasising the generation of complex relation over the stability of objects
and subjects? Gathering Ecologies explores this ethical and political shift in
thinking, examining the creative potential of differential relations through key
concepts from the philosophies of A.N. Whitehead, Gilbert Simondon and
Michel Serres. Utilising detailed examinations of work by artists such as Lygia
Clark, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Nathaniel Stern and Joyce Hinterding, the
book discusses the creative potential of movement, perception and sensation,
interfacing, sound and generative algorithmic design to tune an event towards
the conditions of its own ecological emergence