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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Framed by Patricia Ticineto Clough’s stunning essay, this collection weaves together many of the most profound changes that have characterized not only critical scholarship in the human sciences for the last thirty-five years or so but the social, political, and economic changes that describe the world as ‘glocal’—the entwined and so-fast linking of the stubborn and material ‘hereness’ of life as lived and breathed, on the one hand, and an array of forces and practices spanning place and time marked by terms such as technoscience, telecommunications, flexible accumulation, and molecularization, on the other.”—Joseph Schneider, author of
Donna Haraway: Live Theory“From the trauma of cultural displacement to the political economy of affective labor, the essays brought together here examine the many facets of affect, focusing on its consequences for theories of the social and well-informed by recent rethinkings of power. Expertly framed by Patricia Clough’s introduction, the volume presents a diversity of voices engaged in a shared exploration of the conceptual landscape stretching beyond the bend of ‘the affective turn.’”—Brian Massumi, author of
Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation“This volume attempts to move beyond a philosophy of affect to a social science of the affects. By attending to the simultaneous engagement of the body and the intellectual, and the reciprocity between both, our understanding of the social is enhanced by the affective turn in much the same way as the linguistic turn and the postmodern turn have done previously. . . . I highly recommend the opening essay to those wishing to frame the affective turn in their own work.” -- Scott Grills * Canadian Journal of Sociology *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Foreword: What Affects Are Good For / Michael Hardt ix
Introduction / Patricia Ticineto Clough 1
The Parched Tongue / Hosu Kim 34
Techno-Cinema: Image Matters in the Affective Unfoldings of Analog Cinema and New Media / Jamie “Skye” Bianco 47
Slowness: Notes toward an Economy of Differencial Rates of Being / Karen Wendy Gilbert 77
Myocellular Transduction: When My Cells Trained My Body-Mind / Deborah Gambs 106
Women’s Work and the Ambivalent Gift of Entropy / David Staples 119
Voices from the Teum: Synesthetic Trauma and the Ghosts of the Korean Diaspora / Grace M. Cho 151
In Calcutta, Sex Workers Organize / Melissa Ditmor 170
More Than a Job: Meaning, Affect, and Training Health Care Workers / Ariel Ducey 187
Haunting Orpheus: Problems of Space and Time in the Desert / Jonathan R. Wynn 209
Always on Display: Affective Production in the Modeling Industry / Elizabeth Wissinger 231
The Wire / Jean Halley 261
Losses and Returns: The Soldier in Trauma / Greg Goldberg and Craig Willse 264
Bibliography 287
Contributors 303
Index 305
