Search Results for affectivity

...Managing Affects ...

...After Affect ...

...Affective Archives ...

...The Power to Affect This chapter moves to the “home front” of the “war on terror.” It discusses the terror color-alert system set in place by the Bush administration as an exercise in media-based priming of the population for asymmetric war across the full spectrum of preemptive power...

... This chapter examines the colonization of the intimate labor that women do, in particular the notion of “care work” in a global perspective. Intimacy and affect become a pedagogical focus in training foreign nurses. This chapter focuses on a government-funded pilot project designed to help...

...Desires/Affects ...

... The second chapter, “Domestic Affects,” offers and extraction history of the cultural genre and jurisdictional framework of “the domestic.” The chapter argues that, across its many cultural and political uses, the domestic at its heart indexes a quality of colonial social relation—the attachment...

... This chapter considers the stakes of the affirmative drive of affect theory. It argues that the insistent affirmationist drive of affect and its foreclosure of the negative is mirrored by and intertwined with the structuring absence of blackness within its precincts. Affect theory's investment...