Gregg / Seigworth The Affect Theory Reader

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9304-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

A field-defining collection that consolidates thinking and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gregg, Melissa

Seigworth, Gregory J.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ahmed, Sara

Massumi, Brian

Probyn, Elspeth

Berlant, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

An Inventory of Shimmers / Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg 1

One. Impingements

1. Happy Objects / Sara Ahmed 29

2. The Future Birth of the Affective Fact: The Political Ontology of Threat / Brian Massumi 52

3. Writing Shame / Elspeth Probyn 71

Two. Aesthetics and the Everyday

4. Cruel Optimism / Lauren Berlant 93

5. Bitter after Taste: Affect, Food, and Social Aesthetics / Ben Highmore 118

An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers: Fèlix Guattari on Affect and the Refrain/ Lone Bertelsen and Andrew Murphie 138

Three. Incorporeal/Inorganic

7. Modulating the Excess of Affect: Morale in a State of "Total War" / Ben Anderson 161

8. After Affect: Sympathy, Synchrony, and Mimetic Communication / Anna Gibbs 186

9. The Affective Turn: Political Economy, Biomedia, and Bodies / Patricia T. Clough 206

Four. Managing Affects

10. Eff the Ineffable: Affect, Somatic Management, and Mental Health Service Users / Steven D. Brown and Ian Tucker 229

11. On Friday Night Drinks: Workplace Affects in the Age of the Cubicle / Melissa Gregg 250

12. Desiring Recognition, Accumulating Affect / Megan Watkins 269

Five. After Affect

13. Understanding the Material Practices of Glamour / Nigel Thrift 289

14. Affect's Future: Rediscovering the Virtual in the Actual / Lawrence Grossberg (An Interview with Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg) 309

Afterword. Worlding Refrains / Kathleen Stewart 339

References 355

Contributors 381

Index 385

Über Autor(innen)

Melissa Gregg works in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is the author of Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices.Gregory J. Seigworth is a professor in communication and theater at Millersville University in Pennsylvania.