...; and thirdly, what racialised affective communities it produces. Whereas emotion works through historicisation to pin down a precise subject identity, affect deploys abstraction to construct a timeless truth about bodily intensity. I take Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale as my axiomatic example, where Canacee’s lappe...

...Cora Fox traces the ways the gendered governing emotion of merriness negotiates and solidifies communities in ‘Merriness, affect, and community in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor’. Her essay points to how recent work on positive emotions in contemporary affect theory, particularly informed...

..., particularly histories of silenced, forgotten, or invisible populations? activism archives artist Boochani Behrouz Croft Brenda De Souza Allan indigenous Australians racialisation Tazreiter Claudia affect concept Deleuze Gilles Derrida Jacques Grosz Elizabeth Steedman Carolyn Ah Kee Vernon...

... landscape of the city. Beginning with Petesy’s interview, the chapter follows his trajectory from playing in punk bands to setting up an anarchist social centre and collective in Belfast, the Warzone Collective and Giro’s. It also highlights the affective and epiphanic importance of key moments...

...The introduction sets out the book’s aims and objectives in relation to the predominant legacies of political philosophy. The author shows how rationalist principles have formed the backbone of Western philosophical thought, invariably in opposition to affect, emotion, feeling, and passion, since...

...Chapter 3 looks at how an affective politics underpins critical theory’s engagement with the world of objects. The chapter begins by outlining the recent upsurge in theoretical writing on objects/things, especially within the much-hyped field of ‘object-oriented ontology’ or ‘speculative realism...

... people represent, she shows how the complex interactions played out in the groupwork course offer important insights for rethinking cosmopolitan aspirations. Cosmopolitanism Difference Psychoanalysis of Groups Psychotherapy Affect and Intimacy Relationality Subjectivity What might it mean...

... characterised by their dispassionate inquiries into the past. Yet medieval studies has a long and mixed history of affective relationships with the past it fosters: passion and professionalism often go hand in hand. This complex history makes it hard to distinguish medieval scholarship from the amateurism...

... are often affective ones, often structured around love, abjection and discontent. Medieval writers offer powerful models for the ways in which contemporary desire determines the constitution of the past. This desire can not only connect us with the past but can reconnect present readers with the lost...

... (and desirable) bodies and the contradictory impulses produced by smell, skin and contamination, the mouth and ingestion. It argues that negative affects in Coxcomb are a symptom of embodied subjectivity. Analysing the novel’s notorious tableau of adult breastfeeding, it shows how Cleland’s...

... to understand the imbrication of religion into other aspects of people's lives and discuss the ways in which migrant-led churches are facilitating what they see as a re-enchantment of landscape. Drogheda James W Pentecostalism Warehouses Economic recession Garda Síochána Music Rumours Security Affect...

.... The question of the gender, and the sexual orientation, of massage therapist and subject/author come into play in complex, if unspoken ways, and the links and contrasts of intellectual labour and manual work emerge as inevitable aspects of this encounter. Affect Touch Intimacy Skin Writing Gender...

... theories of affect that have emerged in the past couple of decades as part of the so-called ‘new materialisms’. Taking on board some of the key findings of this recent work on affect, the author also highlights the potential political deficiencies that accompany such accounts, particularly within a growing...

...Chapter 4 explores the affective politics of hope. It begins by surveying the ways in which historical events and their narrativization have (re)produced certain ideological positions and affective dispositions. The post-Cold War triumphalism of many on the right, accompanied by claims of the ‘end...

...Janet Wolff’s concluding chapter for Beyond text? identifies the academic trends behind the aesthetic attitudes towards the celebration of the image and image making in the humanities as: the turn to ‘affect’; the (re)turn to phenomenology (and post-phenomenology); actor-network...

...Taking in recent advances in neuroscience and digital technology, Gander and Garland assess the state of the inter-arts in America and the Western world, exploring and questioning the primacy of affect in an increasingly hypertextual everyday environment. In this analysis they signal a move beyond...

... of transforming African sources into ‘smoothed out’ objects suitable for bourgeois tastes. The luxurious affect of these objects and various techniques elicited a symbiotic sensory connection between vision and the haptic. African or tribal-inspired designs and objects were the site of a cultural contest and were...

... affect and the non-human We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Martin Luther King, Jr. (16 April 1963) The prevailing notion of recognition in International Relations (IR...

...The volume editors provide a rationale for focusing on positive emotions during the European Renaissance, accounting for not only dominant historicist scholarship on Galenic humoral theory, Stoicism, and larger questions of early modern embodiment but also newer methodological directions in affect...

...In ‘“My crown is called content”: positive, negative, and political affects in Shakespeare’s first tetralogy’, Paul Joseph Zajac traces the ways these political plays explore the vitality and limitations of a practiced contentment as a mode of leadership and political survival. While this subtle...