Affect Lab - The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion

"The Affect Lab examines the use of measurement tools to argue that research on emotions has confused the physiology of emotion with the tools that define its inscription. Offering a new critique of affect and affect theory, Grant Bollmer demonstrates how deferrals to psychology and neuroscience in contemporary theory and philosophy neglect the material of experimental, scientific research"--

Sommario

Contents
Introduction: Techniques of the Affect Lab
1. William James’s Planchette
2. Books of Faces
3. The Prison Dynograph
4. E-Meter Metaphysics
Conclusion: The Epistemology and Aesthetics of Empathy
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Grant Bollmer is senior lecturer of digital media at the University of Queensland. He is author of Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection;Theorizing Digital Cultures; and Materialist Media Theory.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Grant Bollmer
• Editore: University Of Minnesota Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.09.2023
• EAN: 9781517915469
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1546-9
• Pagine: 304
• Categoria: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Società