... This chapter explores how affect operates within systems of power. Power is determined neither by language nor the operations of a sovereign consciousness, but by affective compulsions that move bodies. To draw out this motif, this chapter explores three case studies. First, critical approaches...

... video installations digital video loop films repetition compulsion ...

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... Khave coffee house in Istanbul. Both are structured as loops. The chapter identifies and describes modes of repetition that do not operate according to the logic of the death drive, the Freudian repetition compulsion, or eternal recurrence without difference. Burgin’s videos repeat, but in a manner...

... This chapter illustrates how a set of affective compulsions can operate outside of the perimeter of discursively mediated ideologies to produce links between religions and systems of power. It argues for supplementing the analytics of religious ideology with a social primatology—an attention...

... in the folds of this discourse lurk other feelings—compulsion, desire, longing, need, contentment, grief. Rather than looking to novel technologies and biomedical horizons to solve the ongoing challenges in queer reproductive narratives, this chapter centers affective charges as a window into how care...

..., and productivity as entirely separate from compulsion. oikonomics pieza Japanese colonialism C. L. R. James Sylvia Wynter ...

... of nonconnection, and what Ghosh calls the “becoming aesthetic,” the chapter demonstrates how ethics of literature can also emerge from a pretheoretical state. The phenomenon of the becoming aesthetic is a bargaining power that is supposedly lost on literature in the compulsive duress of interpretation...

... ontology, principles of nonconnection, and what Ghosh calls the “becoming aesthetic,” the chapter demonstrates how ethics of literature can also emerge from a pretheoretical state. The phenomenon of the becoming aesthetic is a bargaining power that is supposedly lost on literature in the compulsive duress...