The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg (English) Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg, Gregory J. Seigworth A field-defining collection that consolidates thinking and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. As Lauren Berlant explores "cruel optimism," Brian Massumi theorizes the affective logic of public threat, and Elspeth Probyn examines shame, they, along with the other contributors, show how an awareness of affect is opening up exciting new insights in disciplines from anthropology, cultural studies, geography, and psychology to philosophy, queer studies, and sociology. In essays diverse in subject matter, style, and perspective, the contributors demonstrate how affect theory illuminates the intertwined realms of the aesthetic, the ethical, and the political as they play out across bodies (human and non-human) in both mundane and extraordinary ways. They reveal the broad theoretical possibilities opened by an awareness of affect as they reflect on topics including ethics, food, public morale, glamor, snark in the workplace, and mental health regimes. The Affect Theory Reader includes an interview with the cultural theorist Lawrence Grossberg and an afterword by the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart. In the introduction, the editors suggest ways of defining affect, trace the concepts history, and highlight the role of affect theory in various areas of study. Contributors. Sara Ahmed, Ben Anderson, Lauren Berlant, Lone Bertelsen, Steven D. Brown, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Anna Gibbs,Melissa Gregg, Lawrence Grossberg, Ben Highmore, Brian Massumi, Andrew Murphie, Elspeth Probyn, Gregory J. Seigworth, Kathleen Stewart, Nigel Thrift, Ian Tucker, Megan Watkins Notes A collection of essays on affect theory by groundbreaking scholars in the field Author Biography Melissa Gregg works in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is the author of Cultural Studies Affective Voices.Gregory J. Seigworth is a professor in communication and theater at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ixAn Inventory of Shimmers / Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg 1One. Impingements 1. Happy Objects / Sara Ahmed 292. The Future Birth of the Affective Fact: The Political Ontology of Threat / Brian Massumi 523. Writing Shame / Elspeth Probyn 71Two. Aesthetics and the Everyday 4. Cruel Optimism / Lauren Berlant 935. Bitter after Taste: Affect, Food, and Social Aesthetics / Ben Highmore 118An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers: Fèlix Guattari on Affect and the Refrain/ Lone Bertelsen and Andrew Murphie 138Three. Incorporeal/Inorganic 7. Modulating the Excess of Affect: Morale in a State of "Total War" / Ben Anderson 1618. After Affect: Sympathy, Synchrony, and Mimetic Communication / Anna Gibbs 1869. The Affective Turn: Political Economy, Biomedia, and Bodies / Patricia T. Clough 206Four. Managing Affects 10. Eff the Ineffable: Affect, Somatic Management, and Mental Health Service Users / Steven D. Brown and Ian Tucker 22911. On Friday Night Drinks: Workplace Affects in the Age of the Cubicle / Melissa Gregg 25012. Desiring Recognition, Accumulating Affect / Megan Watkins 269Five. After Affect 13. Understanding the Material Practices of Glamour / Nigel Thrift 28914. Affects Future: Rediscovering the Virtual in the Actual / Lawrence Grossberg (An Interview with Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg) 309Afterword. Worlding Refrains / Kathleen Stewart 339References 355Contributors 381Index 385 Review "While a reader of the book might be left less rather than more sure of what precisely constitutes affect theory, or even affect itself, s/he is nevertheless very likely to be moved by the range of both thought and affective styles that make up the volume and constitute what the editors call in the introduction, an inventory of shimmers (p11). This incitement to more than discourse, the capacity to touch, to move, to mobilise readers (p24) is exactly what one would hope for from a reader of affect theory, and is what the contributions that make up this collection indeed achieve." Michael Goddard, New Formations "The Affect Theory Reader shows how affect can be deployed in a range of frameworks, including the neurological, psychological, social, cultural, philosophical and political, and that there is room for debate among these various fields - above all between the Deleuze-inspired writings of Brian Massumi and his followers and those of the more scientifically minded followers of Eve Sedgwick, whose work was formulated in dialogue with affect psychologist Silvan Tomkins" Todd Cronan, Radical Philosophy, March 2012 "The Affect Theory Reader is unique. It gathers interesting and provocative articles on affect by well-known theorists and suggestively brings to expression the productive divergence between different philosophical and psychological positions on the subject." Erin Manning, author of Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty "Written by some of the most interesting and important thinkers in the field, the essays in this superb collection prove how any serious consideration of culture and politics needs to involve serious attention to affect. The Affect Theory Reader covers remarkable ground: from the ontology of future threat in Bushs pre-emptive politics to the management of workplace affects in the information economy; from the biology of human mimicry to attachments to promises of the good life that often cruelly wear out economically precarious subjects. Thoughtfully curated and genuinely interdisciplinary with contributors from fields ranging from media studies to geography, Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworths reader will be indispensable to anyone working in or adjacent to affect theory." Sianne Ngai, author of Ugly Feelings Promotional A collection of essays on affect theory by groundbreaking scholars in the field Review Quote "Written by some of the most interesting and important thinkers in the field, the essays in this superb collection prove how any serious consideration of culture and politics needs to involve serious attention to affect. The Affect Theory Reader covers remarkable ground: from the ontology of future threat in Bushs preemptive politics to the management of workplace affects in the information economy; from the biology of human mimicry to attachments to promises of the good life that often cruelly wear out economically precarious subjects. Thoughtfully curated and genuinely interdisciplinary, with contributors from fields ranging from media studies to geography, Melissa Greggs and Gregory J. Seigworths reader will be indispensable to anyone working in or adjacent to affect theory."- Sianne Ngai , author of Ugly Feelings Details ISBN0822347768 Short Title AFFECT THEORY READER Language English ISBN-10 0822347768 ISBN-13 9780822347767 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edited by Gregory J. Seigworth DEWEY 152.4 Publisher Duke University Press Author Gregory J. Seigworth Year 2010 Publication Date 2010-11-12 UK Release Date 2010-11-12 AU Release Date 2010-11-12 NZ Release Date 2010-11-12 US Release Date 2010-11-12 Illustrations 1 photograph Pages 416 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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