... dedicated to memory. The recordings have also emerged as a point of departure for artistic interventions and offer testimony to the array of sounds—voices, music, noises—that were heard by prisoners of Latin American concentration camps. This chapter interrogates the role of sound in archives' affective...

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... and democratic institutions far beyond Jamaica. Dons balance an autocratic form of rule with an established democratic order while also relying on aesthetic forms to craft affective atmospheres of authority. The conclusion argues that this type of political authority should not be seen as restricted...

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... This chapter takes as its point of departure the question of how affect theories are inflected and influenced by the emergence across the social sciences and humanities of the elements as a series of disparate matters of concern. First, elements are compositional participants in the (infra...

... This chapter analyzes counterfactual strategies and practices of strategic deception through the lens of affective politics. Practices of strategic deception are common communication and behavioral practices that traverse many different settings, including the military, colonial forms of power...

... only implicit in the earlier volume. structures of feeling solution atmosphere environment weather Ambiguity refers to the instability or multiplicity of meaning and is therefore something of a fact of life, whereas affect is not an issue of meaning as such. The turn to affect...

... This chapter explores Haydée’s birth in 1922 and childhood on a sugar plantation in rural Cuba, what life was like for a girl and young woman in that restrictive atmosphere, and how class and gender norms affected her. It describes her place in the family, relationships with her parents and four...

... striking and consistent use of aural imagery, evoking a soundscape through references to noise, music, communication and sound reproduction technologies, and spoken language. Music and sound serve as more than atmospheric detail in these novels; they propel the stories and serve as the ground on which...

... and contest. A Pacific becoming Oceania projects transpacific cross-border unity and possibility of transnational solidarity to deal with this crisis of oceanic and atmospheric belonging. Ocean commons, figured as biospheric element necessary to sustaining life and planetary health, can build up tactics...

...Atmospheres of Doubt According to established notions of authoritarianism, the withholding of information enables domination. By contrast, in the context of Syria’s uprising and autocratic retrenchment, it is information excess that gets exploited for political gain. The Syrian example also...

... and a new materialist rendering of affect theory. The chapter probes these two strands and then sketches out a Whiteheadian nonconscious. The first observation notes the differing ways in which the neuroscientific nonconscious has stirred up debate. The aim is to place a small range of varied new...

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... Rim” needs to conjure and contest. A Pacific becoming Oceania projects transpacific cross-border unity and possibility of transnational solidarity to deal with this crisis of oceanic and atmospheric belonging. Ocean commons, figured as biospheric element necessary to sustaining life and planetary...

... and the World (1919). Both novels make striking and consistent use of aural imagery, evoking a soundscape through references to noise, music, communication and sound reproduction technologies, and spoken language. Music and sound serve as more than atmospheric detail in these novels; they propel the stories...

... electoral, nationality, land, and labor acts. As well as looking at how the policy affected Ivorian society, Babo investigates how ordinary citizens navigated laws by focusing on the evidence residents were requested to produce to demonstrate their ivoirité. Identity documents, such as birth certificates...