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Book SynopsisWe live in an era of experimentation – both if we look at the broader social world of politics, media and art and at the narrower context of academic knowledge production. This collection consists of 14 chapters by leading scholars in affect studies. They explore the affective dimensions of experimental practices related to, for example, activism, the COVID-19 pandemic, populism, sustainability, patient communities, music streaming, Jamaican dancehall, gangs, leadership, tourism and minority youth cultures. Experiments are understood as intentionally crafted milieus aimed at (re)presenting unnoticed aspects of the world, as non-linear processes with unpredictable outcomes, and as ways of giving the future a provisional form. The collection responds to a pressing need to understand the intersection between affect, experimentation and sociocultural change by offering empirical strategies to explore how, and with what consequences, experimentation is affective.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Methodologies of Affective Experimentation by Britta Timm Knudsen, Mads Krogh and Carsten Stage
Part I: Understanding Affective Experimentation as a Method of the Social
2. Affect as Disruption: Affective Experimentation, Automobility and the Ecological Crisis by Paul Schuetze, Kilian Jörg, Imke von Maur and Jan Slaby
3. Populism as Para-politics: Play, Affect, Simulation by Christoffer Kølvraa
4. Interspecies pedagogies: More-than-Human Experiments with Leadership in/of the Anthropocene by Dorthe Staunæs and Sverre Raffnsøe
5. Engines of Affect: Experimenting with Auditory Intensities in the Jamaican Sound System Session by Julian Henriques
6. Experimentation in and with the Stream: Music, Mood Management and Affect by Mads Krogh
7. Experimentations in Pandemic Boredom by Susanna Paasonen
Part II: Understanding Affective Experimentation as a Research Method
8. Worlding with Glitter: Vibrancy, Enchantment and Wonder by Rebecca Coleman
9. Affective Writing Experiments by Signe Uldbjerg and Natalie Ann Hendry
10. Problematising Shame: Affective Experimentation on Social Media by Carsten Stage
11. Affective Experiments: Card Games, Blind Dates and Dinner Parties by Sophie Hope
12. Wind as Elementary Attraction: Case: An Avant-Garde Experiment on the West Coast of Jutland, Denmark by Britta Timm Knudsen
13. The Tombstones that Cried the Night Away: An Allegory by Phillip and April Vannini
14. Activating limit as method: An affective experiment in ethnographic criminology by Christina Jerne
