The affective turn : theorizing the social / edited by Patricia Ticineto Clough, with Jean Halley ; foreword by Michael Hardt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clough, Patricia Ticineto, 1945-

Halley, Jean O'Malley, 1967-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affect (Psychology).

Cognition and culture.

Emotions.

Interpersonal relations.

Traumatism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Linking cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores the role of affect in the theorization of the social.

Contents:

Foreword : what affects are good for / Michael Hardt

Introduction / Patricia Ticineto Clough

The parched tongue / Hosu Kim

Techno-cinema : image matters in the affective unfoldings of analog cinema and new media / Jamie "Skye" Bianco

Slowness : notes toward an economy of differancial rates of being / Karen Wendy Gilbert

Myocellular transduction : when my cells trained my body-mind / Deborah Gambs

Women's work and the ambivalent gift of entropy / David Staples

Voices from the Teum : synesthetic trauma and the ghosts of the Korean diaspora / Grace M. Cho

In Calcutta, sex workers organize / Melissa Ditmore

More than a job : meaning, affect, and training health care workers / Ariel Ducey

Haunting Orpheus : problems of space and time in the desert / Jonathan R. Wynn

Always on display : affective production in the modeling industry / Elizabeth Wissinger

The wire / Jean Halley

Losses and returns : the soldier in trauma / Greg Goldberg and Craig Willse

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-301) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-02307-5

9786613023070

0-8223-8960-6

OCLC:

262340997