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Ordinary Affects (Paperback)
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Ordinary Affects (Paperback)
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Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the
affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that
animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and
politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen
Stewart ponders how ordinary impacts create the subject as a
capacity to affect and be affected. In a series of brief vignettes
combining storytelling, close ethnographic detail, and critical
analysis, Stewart relates the intensities and banalities of common
experiences and strange encounters, half-spied scenes and the
lingering resonance of passing events. While most of the instances
rendered are from Stewart's own life, she writes in the third
person in order to reflect on how intimate experiences of emotion,
the body, other people, and time inextricably link us to the
outside world.Stewart refrains from positing an overarching
system-whether it's called globalization or neoliberalism or
capitalism-to describe the ways that economic, political, and
social forces shape individual lives. Instead, she begins with the
disparate, fragmented, and seemingly inconsequential experiences of
everyday life to bring attention to the ordinary as an integral
site of cultural politics. Ordinary affect, she insists, is
registered in its particularities, yet it connects people and
creates common experiences that shape public feeling. Through this
anecdotal history-one that poetically ponders the extremes of the
ordinary and portrays the dense network of social and personal
connections that constitute a life-Stewart asserts the necessity of
attending to the fleeting and changeable aspects of existence in
order to recognize the complex personal and social dynamics of the
political world.
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