... if a threat did not eventuate into an actual danger, it always could have, so preemptive action will always have been right. This is a tautology, but one that does not self-destruct. Instead, in produces self-legitimating affective facts. The production of affective facts rests on the ambiguous empirical...

... affective fact affective politics virtual quasi-cause political legitimation ...

.... This is a tautology, but one that does not self-destruct. Instead, in produces self-legitimating affective facts. The production of affective facts rests on the ambiguous empirical status of threat: threats may be “real” (i.e., correspond to an actual danger) or they may be felt into existence. If I am afraid, I...

... This chapter demonstrates how patients and families become caught up in the world of kidney transplantation, especially living donor transplantation. Living kidney donation, in particular from an adult child to a parent, has become a normal cultural practice and a routine social fact...

... 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 in cultural inquiry from the 1990s has partly been a reaction to the perceived dominance of questions connected...

... This chapter engages the ethical history of American trans- medicine as a distinct “geography of care” and shows how that history continues to bear on the clinical present. Surgeons’ efforts to frame their work with trans- patients in ethical and affective terms both respond to the fact of poor...

... and the humanitarian imperialism of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) as based on “affective facts” (Massumi) and a new body politic of “feeling political together” (Berlant). It tracks how literacy has become a major humanitarian target and a national campaign to redress (purported) Aboriginal...

... Chapter 4 explores the interface of archive, affect, and the everyday in the aesthetic practices of queer diaspora. It examines in tandem a memoir by African American studies scholar Saidiya Hartman, the photography of Allan deSouza, a collaborative multimedia project by the artists Chitra...

... 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 discusses why Indian middle classes seem to have no compelling interest in improving sanitation for the poor, despite the fact that their own health is affected due to their close proximity to the poor. It examines some cultural theories of attitudes toward “the dirty outside world...

... India. The juxtaposition of these apparently disparate nodes underscores their overlaps as well as disjunctures to demonstrate that, instead of consolidating or reifying India, these constructions of Global India in fact unsettle substantialist notions of India and Indian culture and the presumptions...

... 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...

... of anthropological thinking about hill people in this area. mountain people Southeast Asia borderlands Himalayas This chapter discusses why Indian middle classes seem to have no compelling interest in improving sanitation for the poor, despite the fact that their own health is affected due...

... understandings of the relationship between work and leisure in neoliberal economies. By and large, Indian programmers do not allow work demands to intrude on leisure time; in fact, they actively resist this. The chapter posits that leisure time is so preserved because it allows programmers to develop a politics...

...A Labyrinth of Incarnations This chapter analyzes the interlacing of visible identities and the changing materiality of flesh, through a close reading of Frantz Fanon’s work. Fanon dramatizes how ideas about race affect his own body. He describes being wounded by the looks and words of others...

... of proximity as it sidles Black sociality and process philosophy. This approximation of proximity recognizes gaps and moves through them, interested in the differential that produces complexity. However, the overlap is hardly seamless. It is the seam, in fact, that textures the encounter. The claim here...

..., the two are hard to separate. Leisure is no longer the exclusive property of an elite. This fact has had profound ramifications for travel and for the world. vacationing leisure industry social mobility Karl Marx Thorstein Veblen Travel has been declared dead many times through modern...

... demonstrates how patients and families become caught up in the world of kidney transplantation, especially living donor transplantation. Living kidney donation, in particular from an adult child to a parent, has become a normal cultural practice and a routine social fact that, for many, guides how love...