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Non-cognitive expressions of the life of the subject – feeling,
motion, tactility, instinct, automatism, and sentience – have
transformed how scholars understand subjectivity, agency and
identity. This collection investigates the critical purchase of the
idiom of affect in this ‘post-humanist’ thinking of the
subject. It also explores political and ethical questions raised by
the deployment of affect as a theoretical and artistic category.
Together the contributors to this collection map the theoretically
heterogeneous field of post-humanist scholarship on affect, making
inspiring, and at times surprising, connections between Spinoza’s
and Tomkins’s theories of affect, the concept of affect and
psychoanalysis, and affect and animal studies in art and
literature. As a result, the concepts, vocabulary, compatibility,
and attribution of affect are challenged and extended. The chapters
in this book were originally published as a special issue of
Angelaki.
Non-cognitive expressions of the life of the subject - feeling,
motion, tactility, instinct, automatism, and sentience - have
transformed how scholars understand subjectivity, agency and
identity. This collection investigates the critical purchase of the
idiom of affect in this 'post-humanist' thinking of the subject. It
also explores political and ethical questions raised by the
deployment of affect as a theoretical and artistic category.
Together the contributors to this collection map the theoretically
heterogeneous field of post-humanist scholarship on affect, making
inspiring, and at times surprising, connections between Spinoza's
and Tomkins's theories of affect, the concept of affect and
psychoanalysis, and affect and animal studies in art and
literature. As a result, the concepts, vocabulary, compatibility,
and attribution of affect are challenged and extended. The chapters
in this book were originally published as a special issue of
Angelaki.
Building Dignified Worlds examines how contemporary collectives are
designing alternative economies. Contemporary collectives differ
markedly from previous groups associated with revolutionary
politics. Instead of assembling large groups of workers around
labor issues, these new collectives creatively arrange diverse
peoples, animals, natural environments, and technologies around
economic concerns. Like older forms of leftist organizing, these
collectives seek to bring about change. However, rather than
working to overthrow and replace an underlying capitalist system
with an equally totalizing alternative like socialism, they
experiment with new forms of economic life. This book explores how
socially and politically concerned groups actually establish
alternative economies. Building Dignified Worlds investigates
social movements that do not simply protest but actively forge
functional alternatives. The market model described by many
scholars and activists as the enemy of these recent social
movements rarely exists in today's world. As Gerda Roelvink notes,
current markets are better conceptualized as dynamic social
networks open to intervention by innovative social movements.
Radical scholars have theorized social transformation as a
performative act. They have provided extensive analysis of how
discourse shapes the world through language and is materialized in
bodies and practices. Until now, though, little has been written
about the geographical nature of collective associations
"performing" new worlds. Roelvink takes actor network and
performativity theories of action as starting points for thinking
about how contemporary collectives bring the new into being. This
approach enables an understanding of how collectives initiate
change and begins to map the forces through which they operate.
Roelvink's work reveals, in particular, how the relational and
geographical nature of performative action is central to the ways
in which hybrid collectives strive to create alternative economies.
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