Affect Theory Reader

Name: Affect Theory Reader
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ISBN: 9780822347767

ISBN-10: 0822347768

ISBN-13: 9780822347767

Edition: 2010

Authors: Melissa Gregg, Gregory J. Seigworth

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This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. Major thinkers theorize affect: visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing that can serve to drive us toward movement, thought and ever-changing forms of relation. As Lauren Berlant explores "cruel optimism," Brian Massumi theorizes the affective logic of public threat, and Elspeth Probyn examines shame, they, along with the other contributors, show how an awareness of affect is opening up exciting new insights in disciplines from anthropology, cultural studies, geography, and psychology to philosophy, queer studies, and sociology. In essays diverse in…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/12/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Acknowledgments


An Inventory of Shimmers




Impingements



Happy Objects




The Future Birth of the Affective Fact: The Political Ontology of Threat




Writing Shame




Aesthetics and the Everyday



Cruel Optimism




Bitter after Taste: Affect, Food, and Social Aesthetics




An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers: Fï¿½lix Guattari on Affect and the Refrain




Incorporeal/Inorganic



Modulating the Excess of Affect: Morale in a State of ï¿½Total Warï¿½




After Affect: Sympathy, Synchrony, and Mimetic Communication




The Affective Turn: Political Economy, Biomedia, and Bodies




Managing Affects



Eff the Ineffable: Affect, Somatic Management, and Mental Health Service Users




On Friday Night Drinks: Workplace Affects in the Age of the Cubicle




Desiring Recognition, Accumulating Affect




After Affect



Understanding the Material Practices of Glamour




Affect's Future: Rediscovering the Virtual in the Actual



Afterword: Worlding Refrains



References


Contributors


Index