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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.
List of contents
1. Posthumanist Perspectives on Affect: Framing the Field
Gerda Roelvink and Magdalena Zolkos
2. Affective Ethologies: Monk Parakeets and Non-Human Inflections in Affect Theory
Ada Smailbegović
3. Mimesis as a Mode of Knowing: Vision and Movement in the Aesthetic Practice of Jean Painlevé
Anna Gibbs
4. Losing Steam After Marx and Freud: On Entropy as the Horizon of the Community to Come
Karyn Ball
5. Insect Affects: The Big and Small of the Entomological Imagination in Childhood
Stephen Loo and Undine Sellbach
6. A War Long Forgotten: Feeling the Past in an English Country Village
Emma Waterton and Steve Watson
7. "My Name Is Danny": Indigenous Animation as Hyper-Realism
Jennifer L. Biddle
8. Affect: An Unworkable Concept
Maria Hynes and Scott Sharpe
About the author
Gerda Roelvink is interdisciplinary scholar located in human geography. She is the author of Building Dignified Worlds (Minnesota UP) and co-editor of Making Other Worlds Possible (Minnesota UP). She has also co-edited, with Dr Magdalena Zolkos, two special issues for the journals Angelaki and Emotion, Space and Society.
Magdalena Zolkos works across the fields of political theory, cultural studies and philosophy, currently as Humboldt Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She is the author of Restitution and the Politics of Repair: Tropes, Imaginaries, Theory (Edinburgh UP) and co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch: On What Cannot Be Touched (Lexington).
Summary
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.
