... of objects generally considered by affect theorists in attending to the part of the impersonal in the process of sympathetic identification. Civil War Military Draft Act 1863 draft riots Enrollment Act 1863 Wood Fernando African Americans Colored Orphans Asylum the state impersonality narrative modes...

..., affect, and the invocation of slavery—as its members honored multiple traditions (Lucumí, Palo Monte, and Espiritismo) under one roof. With reference to conventions surrounding social etiquette and the expression of exhaustion as a particular type of ache, the chapter asserts that the practice of Afro...

... relationship between air route formation, imperial projects, and racial hierarchies. It hones in on the systematic exclusion of the colonial Caribbean from the development of global air networks and the narration of early airline history. It ends by considering how fragments, love, imagination, and affect...

... system neoliberalism class gender National Institutes of Health NIH biomedicine affect subjectivity queer transgender consumerism activism biopolitics biosociality eugenics global governing corporatocracies GGCs Rabinow Paul Epigenetics Health disparities Historical materialism Affect...

...I describe in this chapter how the increased effort to harness hard-to-manage forms of “affective” energy accelerated the demand for models to sell brands and how eventually, in the form of the supermodels, models became brands themselves. The inauguration of the supermodels brought the transition...

... they have cultivated an affective network through the digital zine Catfight, the GraffGirlz.com website, the Chicks on Powertrips blog, the “Female International Graffiti” Facebook group, and the “Female Caps” Tumblr microblog. The chapter claims...

... moments of affective chicanidad. To see reading as the intellectual processing of represented things is to approach text with expectations and preconception. Instead of learning what they already know, by contrast, readers of Racial Immanence will witness the objects...

...This chapter establishes the theoretical framework, using Brian Massumi’s theory of affect to elaborate the differences between emotions and affect. This chapter also reviews some of the media studies literature on children to show how my argument is both indebted to and departs from...

..., insides and outsides, parts and wholes. body bodies cancer care cervix pelvic exam race simulation uterus affect and capitalism affective disposition attention feeling feelings haptic knowledge language ovaries translation boundaries experience feeling with knowledge new materialism...

...This chapter examines how patient empowerment seeks to train medical students to cultivate behaviors, attitudes, and values through disciplinary work done on physicians’ and patients’ affects. Because of the pelvic exam’s fraught history of rendering patients as passive objects prior...

... forms of racial critique, this chapter examines the processes by which racialized affect and social justice become rendered into objects for consumption and circulation within affective visual economies. anti Blackness Asian Americans Blackness capitalism Cheung Miaw Kayan comics Dear Brother...

... Protestant missionaries to civic leaders—spoke of the newly united world that electric speech would create in explicitly Christian terms. Public statements that claimed the telegraph as destined and blessed by God were not merely religious ways of speaking about the telegraph; the affective weight born...

... of Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Lacan, and James Carey, this chapter turns to infrastructure as a supplement to structural and poststructural theories of communication and argues that the creative, affective force of religion made these essentially meaningless signals matter. Even before the Atlantic...

...Chapter 2 uses narrative analysis to examine situated narratives in which community itself became a feeling. Paying attention to affect in narratives told within two nonconformist Muslim groups (Muslims for Progressive Values–DC and the Atlanta Unity Mosque), the chapter argues, offers important...

...Chapter 5 follows the “straightening objects” that appear in the ethical choreographies of Orthodox couples. By highlighting the “work” these objects do, the chapter explores the affective aspects of social pressure. It also illustrates how religious elites rethink reproductive obligations...

... illustrates the problem with social media as phantasmagoria and the ways in which it reproduces affect alienation—how people are alienated from their own feelings—because of phantasmagoria’s ability to produce sensory distraction. Affect alienation, functioning as an anesthetic, merely soothes...

..., from using models as mere props to an intense experience in which the model is expected to reveal herself utterly to the camera. Models’ stories about photographic sittings and shoots reveal how affective lability or mania became a valuable factor in modeling work for the camera in the age of the blink...

..., where models live the part, hiding the effort required to make looking glamourous seem easy and like something everyone should do. agencies modeling fashion shoots fashion shows live “the Look ” models personal lives of “on” all the time Quant Mary televisual glance affectivity Bailey David...

...Here I outline how the turn toward affective branding has shaped a new image regime facilitating the model industry’s rapid expansion into a global network, broadening the field for scouting of prospective models, intensifying competition and turnover as a result. Increasing interest in tapping...

... waif models Butler Judith feminism Grosz Elizabeth Haraway Donna flappers 1920s models affectivity blink regime and age of bodybuilders Campbell Naomi Crawford Cindy Evangelista Linda fitness trends Fonda Jane glamour labor Koda Harold Schwarzenegger Arnold somatic ethic Turlington...