"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the
potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of
fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the
essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of
affects-among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in
the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of
microbiology, thermodynamics, information sciences, and cinema
studies to rethink the body and the affects in terms of technology.
Still others explore the affects of trauma in the context of
immigration and war. And throughout all the essays run serious
theoretical reflections on the powers of the affects and the
political possibilities they pose for research and
practice."-Michael Hardt, from the forewordIn the mid-1990s,
scholars turned their attention toward the ways that ongoing
political, economic, and cultural transformations were changing the
realm of the social, specifically that aspect of it described by
the notion of affect: pre-individual bodily forces, linked to
autonomic responses, which augment or diminish a body's capacity to
act or engage with others. This "affective turn" and the new
configurations of bodies, technology, and matter that it reveals,
is the subject of this collection of essays. Scholars based in
sociology, cultural studies, science studies, and women's studies
illuminate the movement in thought from a psychoanalytically
informed criticism of subject identity, representation, and trauma
to an engagement with information and affect; from a privileging of
the organic body to an exploration of nonorganic life; and from the
presumption of equilibrium-seeking closed systems to an engagement
with the complexity of open systems under far-from-equilibrium
conditions. Taken together, these essays suggest that attending to
the affective turn is necessary 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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