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- Walter Benjamin, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Public Debt, Embodied Cognition, Extended Mind, and 21 moreConsumer Culture and The Debt Industry, Henri Lefebvre, Henri Bergson, Deleuze, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Affect, Affect Theory, Affect (Philosophy), Affect/Emotion, Affect Studies, Affective Neuroscience, Everyday Design, Everyday life theory, Everyday Aesthetics, Everyday Life Studies, The Everyday (Architecture), Sociology of Everyday Life, Affect (Cultural Theory), Digital Culture, and Gabriel Tardeedit
Building on the foundational The Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily... more
Building on the foundational The Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily taken-for-granted assumptions in affect theory, The Affect Theory Reader 2 extends and challenges how contemporary theories of affect intersect with a wide range of topics and fields that include Black studies, queer and trans theory, Indigenous cosmologies, feminist cultural analysis, psychoanalysis, and media ecologies. It foregrounds vital touchpoints for contemporary studies of affect, from the visceral elements of climate emergency and the sensorial sinews of networked media to the minor feelings entangled with listening, looking, thinking, writing, and teaching otherwise. Tracing affect’s resonances with today’s most critical debates, The Affect Theory Reader 2 will reorient and disorient readers to the past, present, and future potentials of affect theory.
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A crowd-sourced list of theory-oriented journals in the humanities. Compiled by members of the Facebook groups Comparative Theory and Capacious in fall 2020.
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This conference has capacious aims! In and across the diverse practices and studies of affect, how might we continue to 'find room' or 'make space' and under what circumstances might such a framing for affect study be problematic? This... more
This conference has capacious aims! In and across the diverse practices and studies of affect, how might we continue to 'find room' or 'make space' and under what circumstances might such a framing for affect study be problematic? This conference will be open to all (students, faculty, non-academics, and others) while emphasizing the crucial role of graduate students and early career researchers in shaping the scholarship in affect study.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Religion, Psychoanalysis, Emotion, and 76 moreBlack Studies Or African American Studies, Queer Studies, Political Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Media Studies, New Media, Composition and Rhetoric, Design, Feminist Theory, Film Studies, Film Theory, Disability Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Queer Theology, Transgender Studies, Sociology of Emotion, Queer Theory, Animal Studies, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Animal Studies, Anthropology of the Body, Literary Criticism, Cultural Theory, Cognition, Embodied Cognition, Bodies and Culture, Embodiment, Critical Race Theory, Embodied Mind and Cognition, Continental Philosophy, Emotional Labour, Digital Culture, Rhetoric and Public Culture, Sound studies, The Body, Affective Neuroscience, Rhetorical Criticism, Feminism, Critical Media Studies, Theories of Gender and Transgender, Queer Theory (Literature), Sociology of the Body, Phenomenology of the body, Architectural Theory, Affect Theory, Freud and Feminist Psychoanalysis, Rhetorical Theory, Affect/Emotion, Spinoza, Critical and Cultural Theory, Affect Studies, Black Feminist Theory/Thought, Phenomenology of the Body (Philosophy), Affect (Cultural Theory), Feminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies, Affect (Philosophy), Cinematic Affect, Embodiment Theory, Embodied and Distributed Cognition, Sensation and Perception, Affect, Emotion and Feeling, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Affect, Blackness, Negative Affect, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Queer, Sensation, Lauren Berlant, Feelings, Embodied and Enactive Cognition, Structures of Feeling, Anthropology of Religion, Politics of Affect, Feeling and Emotion, Phenomenology of Feelings, and Critical Disability Theory
What happens when the relationship to credit and debt becomes more about a body's 'going through the motions', more about touch or gesture than about belief or guilt (or sin)? In what ways then does living-with-debt gradually and... more
What happens when the relationship to credit and debt becomes more about a body's 'going through the motions', more about touch or gesture than about belief or guilt (or sin)? In what ways then does living-with-debt gradually and continuously alter the atmosphere of existence, weaving through and between bodies as a garment to be rhythmically engaged – worn loosely or tightly – and never too easily shrugged off? How should we understand the contact zones, infrastructures, and interfaces where credit and debt are managed, habituated, eluded? Bookended by scenes from Feed (a young adult's dystopian science fiction tale of life under real subsumption in late-capitalism), this essay will pursue various 'threads' toward an ontology of debt – moving beyond the realm of the economic to also consider the ethological, ecological, existential, ethical, and aesthetic aspects of indebtedness in our era of affective capitalism.
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Lived relations to credit and debt can steadily sink into the everyday in ways that are often missed in analyses that attend to the more immediately visible and eventful aspects of financial existence. How might one address those less... more
Lived relations to credit and debt can steadily sink into the everyday in ways that are often missed in analyses that attend to the more immediately visible and eventful aspects of financial existence. How might one address those less remarked-upon, extra-‘ordinary’ lived moments of credit and debt: moments that can come, when all is added up, to say much more about the weight of the day-to-day and, thus, offer – by their very intimacy – the surest potential for their own transformation? Encounters between the monetary and the mundane transpire in all kind of ways, through all manner of instruments/practices, arrangements/assemblages, moralities/affects, rhythms/routines, and across vastly different contexts and registers (familial, communal, gendered, racial, national, global, etc). We argue that only by adhering closely to the empirical contents of one’s immediate situation, as always crossed by the abstractions of theory, does it become possible to grasp in all its temporal and scalar diversity the ‘big picture’, a totality that might begin to unite these fragments and moments that otherwise escape continuously into the background.
Our contributors speak from out of very specific sets of circumstances, histories, and intimacies: with essays that take the reader into the decision-making practices at Portuguese retail banks, the mortgage worries of residents in new-build homes in Warsaw Poland, American military families and their struggles with debt management, the lives of mamapreneurs working a ‘fourth shift,’ the tactical use of credit and debt in the slums of Buenos Aires, the bookkeeping practices of merchants in a Russian small town, the troubling subterranean history of today’s philanthrocapital, Hungarian home borrowers’ sense of futurity, the stylistics of household consumption in Chile, the appetites that drive financial apps, leverage’s force-affects on space and time, and the complicated hopefulness of the Rolling Jubilee.
Together, these essays provide an empirics of indebtedness traversing the diverse social, affectual, and material terrain of the everyday. This editors’ introduction draws from their coordinates and atmospheres to enact a way of thinking across them: a way to gather up the residual, the unnoticed, the moment and the whole, in order to capture ‘something more’ of everyday debt and credit, not only as it passes but also in what it portends.
Our contributors speak from out of very specific sets of circumstances, histories, and intimacies: with essays that take the reader into the decision-making practices at Portuguese retail banks, the mortgage worries of residents in new-build homes in Warsaw Poland, American military families and their struggles with debt management, the lives of mamapreneurs working a ‘fourth shift,’ the tactical use of credit and debt in the slums of Buenos Aires, the bookkeeping practices of merchants in a Russian small town, the troubling subterranean history of today’s philanthrocapital, Hungarian home borrowers’ sense of futurity, the stylistics of household consumption in Chile, the appetites that drive financial apps, leverage’s force-affects on space and time, and the complicated hopefulness of the Rolling Jubilee.
Together, these essays provide an empirics of indebtedness traversing the diverse social, affectual, and material terrain of the everyday. This editors’ introduction draws from their coordinates and atmospheres to enact a way of thinking across them: a way to gather up the residual, the unnoticed, the moment and the whole, in order to capture ‘something more’ of everyday debt and credit, not only as it passes but also in what it portends.
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Review (published on-line) of Hallward's 'Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation'
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monthly columns: 'everyday life is always somewhere else,' 'about a girl ... and a boy,' 'monkey business,' 'rediscovering the secret life of Walter Benjamin,' 'is there a Dr. Seuss in the house?' 'what's in a name?' &... more
monthly columns:
'everyday life is always somewhere else,'
'about a girl ... and a boy,'
'monkey business,'
'rediscovering the secret life of Walter Benjamin,'
'is there a Dr. Seuss in the house?'
'what's in a name?' &
'speaking in the moment'
'everyday life is always somewhere else,'
'about a girl ... and a boy,'
'monkey business,'
'rediscovering the secret life of Walter Benjamin,'
'is there a Dr. Seuss in the house?'
'what's in a name?' &
'speaking in the moment'
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monthly columns:
'to Gump and Gump not,'
'burning on the inside,'
'sound affects'
'to Gump and Gump not,'
'burning on the inside,'
'sound affects'
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Empathy, intuition, & affect. Notes on recent work by Carolyn Pedwell. NosTrumpDamus or the future burp of the affective fact. With-ness. Affective consonance.
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Re-visiting Raymond Williams' structures of feeling. Bjork on television. Mark Hansen and Mark Andrejevic juxtaposed. In the teeth of Ruth Leys. The big book of science and the lies of poets.
So much has transpired in the nine years since the #AffectWTF conference. The study of affect has, by now, variously settled/ unsettled within and across a diverse range of academic disciplines, artistic practices, and research... more
So much has transpired in the nine years since the #AffectWTF conference. The study of affect has, by now, variously settled/ unsettled within and across a diverse range of academic disciplines, artistic practices, and research approaches. And in the years since #AffectWTF, so much has been settling and unsettling-with different rhythms and thicknesses-around the globe: including, it goes without saying, the ongoing resettings and upsettings of settler colonialisms in multiple shapes/forms but also emergent AI, insurgent fascisms, resurgent misogyny/ transphobia /homophobia/ racial and ethnic hatreds, unimpeded climate catastrophe, multi-headed crises in the academy and within the arts and humanities in general, the surging of plutocracies and kleptocracies as the gap between rich and poor grows increasingly divergent, and (too much) more. It is worth noting too that the US Presidential election takes place less than a month after this conference, and Pennsylvania, as one of about a half-dozen key "battleground" states, is going to be front-and-center in whatever electoral shenanigans are underway. So, yeah: come to Lancaster, PA for the Society for the Study of Affect Conference October 12 to 14.
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So much has transpired in the nine years since the #AffectWTF conference. The study of affect has, by now, variously settled/ unsettled within and across a diverse range of academic disciplines, artistic practices, and research... more
So much has transpired in the nine years since the #AffectWTF conference. The study of affect has, by now, variously settled/ unsettled within and across a diverse range of academic disciplines, artistic practices, and research approaches. And in the years since #AffectWTF, so much has been settling and unsettling-with different rhythms and thicknesses-around the globe: including, it goes without saying, the ongoing resettings and upsettings of settler colonialisms in multiple shapes/forms but also emergent AI, insurgent fascisms, resurgent misogyny/ transphobia /homophobia/ racial and ethnic hatreds, unimpeded climate catastrophe, multi-headed crises in the academy and within the arts and humanities in general, the surging of plutocracies and kleptocracies as the gap between rich and poor grows increasingly divergent, and (too much) more. It is worth noting too that the US Presidential election takes place less than a month after this conference, and Pennsylvania, as one of about a half-dozen key "battleground" states, is going to be front-and-center in whatever electoral shenanigans are underway. So, yeah: come to Lancaster, PA for the Society for the Study of Affect Conference October 12 to 14.
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This year's MAPS theme-Methods/Affects/Practices/Sensibilities-is intended to provoke conversations about the widely (and often wildly) divergent modes of affect inquiry. What kinds of maps guide your approaches to research in & through... more
This year's MAPS theme-Methods/Affects/Practices/Sensibilities-is intended to provoke conversations about the widely (and often wildly) divergent modes of affect inquiry. What kinds of maps guide your approaches to research in & through affect? Where and when do the architectures and atmospheres of affect guide and/or disturb the disciplinary formations that generate research trajectories within (and perhaps beyond or outside) your field of specialization? Even more directly, does affect study have a method or methods? The plenary speakers for #affectMAPS-Mel Chen, Keller Easterling, Jennifer Gabrys, Derek McCormack, and Greg Seigworth-have each addressed these kinds of questions in their work. They'll bring a few answers and probably a whole host of new troublings. We encourage direct participation in the creation of our conference's conversations through the submission of STREAM PROPOSALS. A stream proposal surfaces a theme within the conference. It identifies and riffs on specific questions raised around our conference theme of methods / affects / practices / sensibilities. Streams can be proposed by individuals or duos. Successful stream proposers will take an active role as 'stream organizers,' working with the conference committee to promote panel submissions to their stream and helping to give shape to the ultimate make-up of their panels. The issues and engagements that serve as a stream's central concerns should be clearly framed and conceived in a way that encourages-as much as possible-participation from different disciplines. The stream proposal should include a list of possible topics and sub-topics that would fit within its overall framework. For examples of past streams, please visit the official conference website at affect.uky.edu.
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Whether you are an undergraduate/Master/PhD student, an early career academic, a tenured faculty person, or someone outside of the academy all-together, the Society for the Study of Affect Summer Seminars provides an AMAZING opportunity... more
Whether you are an undergraduate/Master/PhD student, an early career academic, a tenured faculty person, or someone outside of the academy all-together, the Society for the Study of Affect Summer Seminars provides an AMAZING opportunity to learn, interact, and create alongside two dozen of the most engaging folks (established and up-and-coming scholars) working in/around affect studies from all around the world! COME BE A PARTICIPANT!!
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Political Theory, Transgender Studies, Medieval Studies, and 15 moreQueer Theory, Posthumanism, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Race Theory, Theories of Gender and Transgender, Affect Theory, Affect/Emotion, Transnational Feminism, Affect Studies, Affect (Cultural Theory), Affect (Philosophy), Decolonial Thought, Religious Studies, Affect, and New Materialism
Call for Proposals to be seminar-convener duos or participants at the Society for the Study of Affect Summer School - July 29-August 02 2019 at Millersville University, Lancaster Pennsylvania
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This conference has capacious aims! In and across the diverse practices and studies of affect, how might we continue to 'find room' or 'make space' and under what circumstances might such a framing for affect study be problematic? Modeled... more
This conference has capacious aims! In and across the diverse practices and studies of affect, how might we continue to 'find room' or 'make space' and under what circumstances might such a framing for affect study be problematic? Modeled on the same ethos of community building, mentorship, and intellectual generosity that guides Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affective Inquiry, this conference will be open to all (students, faculty, non-academics, and others) while emphasizing the crucial role of graduate students and early career researchers in shaping the scholarship in affect study.
Like the well-received #affectWTF event of 2015, the three full days of this conference will be largely structured around proposed panel streams. Submissions that tend toward the more undisciplined , evocative / provocative, and aesthetically-oriented (what we are calling 'interstices') are also encouraged. Spotlight panel sessions and seminars / workshops with a dozen brilliant up-and-comers—including a few established scholars—will provide stirring evidence and useful insights about the latest trajectories of affect inquiry.
TWO WAYS TO SUBMIT TO BE A PRESENTER AT THIS CONFERENCE:
A) CALL FOR PAPERS TO STREAMS
1) 250-word paper abstracts – oriented to one of the accepted stream proposals – can now be submitted. ALL PAPERS MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE at http://capaciousjournal.com/conference/ The final deadline for submissions is THURSDAY, MARCH 15. The conference core committee will keep a master file of all submissions.
2) To aid with proper routing, PLEASE INCLUDE THE STREAM NAME in the subject-line of your emailed paper-abstract submission. The email attachment of your abstract should be in Word. Abstracts can be single-authored or co-authored.
B) INTERSTICES
For those who pursue affect in ways that might be less formally academic and more aesthetic/performative/poetic/evocative, etc., we welcome the submission of proposals for performances, art installations, musical pieces, film and video showings, and similarly provocative interventions. Please submit a detailed description of no more than 500 words regarding any such activity – including special requirements for space, number of persons involved, and some sense of the time-range – to capacious@millersville.edu by no later than THURSDAY, MARCH 15. Please make sure to put the word 'INTERSTICE' in your email subject-line.
(Initial inquiries to the Capacious Conference Core Committee about proposed 'interstices' submissions are encouraged before the deadline.)
Like the well-received #affectWTF event of 2015, the three full days of this conference will be largely structured around proposed panel streams. Submissions that tend toward the more undisciplined , evocative / provocative, and aesthetically-oriented (what we are calling 'interstices') are also encouraged. Spotlight panel sessions and seminars / workshops with a dozen brilliant up-and-comers—including a few established scholars—will provide stirring evidence and useful insights about the latest trajectories of affect inquiry.
TWO WAYS TO SUBMIT TO BE A PRESENTER AT THIS CONFERENCE:
A) CALL FOR PAPERS TO STREAMS
1) 250-word paper abstracts – oriented to one of the accepted stream proposals – can now be submitted. ALL PAPERS MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE at http://capaciousjournal.com/conference/ The final deadline for submissions is THURSDAY, MARCH 15. The conference core committee will keep a master file of all submissions.
2) To aid with proper routing, PLEASE INCLUDE THE STREAM NAME in the subject-line of your emailed paper-abstract submission. The email attachment of your abstract should be in Word. Abstracts can be single-authored or co-authored.
B) INTERSTICES
For those who pursue affect in ways that might be less formally academic and more aesthetic/performative/poetic/evocative, etc., we welcome the submission of proposals for performances, art installations, musical pieces, film and video showings, and similarly provocative interventions. Please submit a detailed description of no more than 500 words regarding any such activity – including special requirements for space, number of persons involved, and some sense of the time-range – to capacious@millersville.edu by no later than THURSDAY, MARCH 15. Please make sure to put the word 'INTERSTICE' in your email subject-line.
(Initial inquiries to the Capacious Conference Core Committee about proposed 'interstices' submissions are encouraged before the deadline.)
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, Black Studies Or African American Studies, Queer Studies, and 55 moreMedia Studies, New Media, Media and Cultural Studies, Rhetoric, Composition and Rhetoric, Feminist Theory, Film Studies, Film Theory, Disability Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Transgender Studies, Queer Theory, Animal Studies, Critical Animal Studies, Literary Criticism, Cultural Theory, Cognition, Embodied Cognition, Bodies and Culture, Critical Race Theory, Continental Philosophy, Digital Culture, Rhetoric and Public Culture, Sound studies, The Body, Disability Theory, Critical Media Studies, Theories of Gender and Transgender, Queer Theory (Literature), Media, Sociology of the Body, Black feminism, Psychoanalysis And Literature, Affect Theory, Feminist Media Studies, Freud and Feminist Psychoanalysis, Rhetorical Theory, Affect/Emotion, Critical and Cultural Theory, Affect Studies, Black Feminist Theory/Thought, Affect (Cultural Theory), Feminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies, Affect (Philosophy), Disability, Psychoanalytic Theory, New Media Studies, Contemporary Philosophy, Film and Media Studies, Affect, Blackness, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Media and Communication Studies, Embodied and Enactive Cognition, and Communication and media Studies
Building on the foundational The Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily... more
Building on the foundational The Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily taken-for-granted assumptions in affect theory, The Affect Theory Reader 2 extends and challenges how contemporary theories of affect intersect with a wide range of topics and fields that include Black studies, queer and trans theory, Indigenous cosmologies, feminist cultural analysis, psychoanalysis, and media ecologies. It foregrounds vital touchpoints for contemporary studies of affect, from the visceral elements of climate emergency and the sensorial sinews of networked media to the minor feelings entangled with listening, looking, thinking, writing, and teaching otherwise. Tracing affect's resonances with today's most critical debates, The Affect Theory Reader 2 will reorient and disorient readers to the past, present, and future potentials of affect theory.