Coming to Our Senses - Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-17052-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

Coming to Our Senses positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known. From Facebook "likes" to Coca-Cola "loves," from "emotional intelligence" in business to "emotional contagion" in social media, affect has become the primary catalyst of global culture, displacing reason as the dominant force guiding global culture.

Through examples of feeling in the books, film, music, advertising, cultural criticism, and political discourse of the United States and Latin America, Reber shows how affect encourages the public to "reason" on the strength of sentiment alone. Well-being, represented by happiness and health, and ill-being, embodied by unhappiness and disease, form the two poles of our social judgment, whether in affirmation or critique. We must then re-envision contemporary politics as operating at the level of the feeling body, so we can better understand the physiological and epistemological conditions affirming our cultural status quo and contestatory strategies for emancipation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reber, Dierdra

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Materielle Kultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Tracking the Feeling SomaAcknowledgmentsPrelude: Affective Contours of KnowledgeIntroduction: Headless CapitalismPart 1: The Feeling Soma1. The Feeling Soma: Humanity as a Singular "We"2. We Are the World: Sentient People and Planet in Sustainability DiscoursePart 2: Homeostatic Dynamics3. "Becoming well beings": Homeostatic Dynamics and the Metaphor of Health4. Legs, Love, and Life: The Affective Political Actor as a Well BeingConclusion: Affective BiopowerNotesWorks CitedIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Dierdra Reber is assistant professor of Spanish at Emory University. Her essays on the cultural politics of Latin American film and fiction, and the epistemology of global culture have appeared in Revista Iberoamericana, Modern Language Notes, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, differences, and nonsite.