The idea that one can soak up someone else's depression or anxiety or sense the tension in a room is familiar. Indeed, phrases that capture this notion abound in the popular vernacular: negative energy, dumping, you could cut the tension with a knife. This book deals with the be…
The idea that one can soak up someone else's depression or anxiety or sense the tension in a room is familiar. Indeed, phrases that capture this notion abound in the popular vernacular: negative energy, dumping, you could cut the tension with a knife. This book deals with the be…
Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of the body, and on Deleuze-Spinoza's relevant concepts of affect and expression, this book examines a kind of cinema that the author calls 'affective-performative'.
by Clough, Patricia Ticineto, Angerer, Marie-Luise, Grindell, Nicholas
<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">Desire After Affect offers a detailed analysis of the affective turn and its consequences for the humanities.
Biographical note: João Constâncio and Maria João Mayer Branco, New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth. Adventure: far from being enclos…
"'The capacity to affect and be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions -- by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth. Adventure: far from being enclose…
by Nyman, Jopi, Schuurman, Nora
fromRoutledge human-animal studies series
Never-ending Stories, Ending Narratives : Polar Bears, Climate Change Populism, and the Recent History of British Nature Documentary Film / Graham Huggan -- Cattle Tending in the "Good Old Times" : Human-Cow Relationships in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Fi…
"Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice"--.
In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect because it resides there not in…
