The Affect theory reader / edited by Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gregg, Melissa, 1978-

Seigworth, Gregory J., 1961-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affect (Psychology).

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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 : Felix 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 (an interview with Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg).

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613251831

9780822393047

0822393042

9781283251839

1283251833

OCLC:

709610574