| Description |
xi, 402 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Happy objects / Sara Ahmed -- The future birth of the affective fact : the political ontology of threat / Brian Massumi -- Writing shame / Elspeth Probyn -- Cruel optimism / Lauren Berlant -- Bitter after taste : affect, food, and social aesthetics / Ben Highmore -- An ethics of everyday infinities and powers : Félix Guattari on affect and the refrain / Lone Bertlesen and Andrew Murphie -- Modulating the excess of affect : morale in a state of "total war" / Ben Anderson -- After affect : sympathy, synchrony, and mimetic communication / Anna Gibbs -- The affective turn : political economy, biomedia, and bodies / Patricia T. Clough -- Eff the Ineffable : affect, somatic management, and mental health service users / Steven D. Brown and Ian Tucker -- On Friday night drinks : workplace affects in the age of the cubicle / Melissa Gregg -- Desiring recognition, accumulating affect / Megan Watkins -- Understanding the material practices of glamour / Nigel Thrift -- Affect's future : rediscovering the virtual in the actual / Lawrence Grossberg (interviewed by Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg) |
| Summary |
This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect - those 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 |
| Link |
netwk |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online |
| Subject |
Affect (Psychology)
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Culture.
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| Author |
Gregg, Melissa, 1978- editor of compilation
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Seigworth, Gregory J., 1961- editor of compilation
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| LC no. |
2010022500 |
| ISBN |
9780822347583 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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082234758X (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9780822347767 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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0822347768 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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