By Patricia Ticineto Clough, Jean Halley
ISBN-10: 0822339110
ISBN-13: 9780822339113
ISBN-10: 0822339250
ISBN-13: 9780822339250
In the mid-1990s, students grew to become their recognition towards the ways in which ongoing political, monetary, and cultural alterations have been altering the area of the social, in particular that element of it defined through the thought of impact: pre-individual physically forces, associated with autonomic responses, which increase or cut back a body’s potential to behave or interact with others. This “affective flip” and the recent configurations of our bodies, expertise, and subject that it finds, is the topic of this choice of essays. students dependent in sociology, cultural reports, technological know-how experiences, and women’s reports light up the stream in suggestion from a psychoanalytically educated feedback of topic identification, illustration, and trauma to an engagement with details and impact; from a privileging of the natural physique to an exploration of nonorganic existence; and from the presumption of equilibrium-seeking closed structures to an engagement with the complexity of open structures less than far-from-equilibrium stipulations. Taken jointly, those essays recommend that getting to the affective flip is important to theorizing the social.
Contributors. Jamie “Skye” Bianco, Grace M. Cho, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Melissa Ditmore, Ariel Ducey, Deborah Gambs, Karen Wendy Gilbert, Greg Goldberg, Jean Halley, Hosu Kim, David Staples, Craig Willse , Elizabeth Wissinger , Jonathan R. Wynn
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Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998). 63. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 351–423. 64. Mbembe, ‘‘Necropolitics,’’ 23. 65. Bauman, Wasted Lives, 89. 66. Massumi, ‘‘Requiem for Our Prospective Dead,’’ 57–58. 67. Bauman, Wasted Lives, 89. 68. Michael Taussig, Law in a Lawless Land (New York: New Press, 2003), xi. 69. Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, trans. Daniel W. Smith (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 91. 70. Taussig, Law in a Lawless Land, 17–18.
Also see Sianne Ngai, Ugly Feelings (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005); and Elizabeth A. Wilson’s treatment of a√ect, including her review of neurological and psychological treatments of a√ect in Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). 3. Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, A√ect, Sensation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002), 30. 4. , 25. 5. Eugene Thacker argues for maintaining scare quotes around the term life itself to guard against any concurrence with the idea that an essence is discoverable—as life itself.
Increasingly it is in these terms that di√erences such as those of ethnicity, race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation become materialized. ∑Ω There also are examples to be drawn from the worldwide treatment of hiv/aids, the tra≈cking in persons, the drug trade, or intercountry adoption, which point not only to a global a√ect economy but also to the shift in governmentality toward biopolitical control at a global level, where as João Biehl puts it, there is an intensifying ‘‘contradiction between a generalized culture of human rights and emergent exclusive structures through which these rights are realized, biologically speaking, but only on a selective basis—who, for how long, and at what cost?
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