Search Results for affect

... twentieth century and the subsequent forms of recolonization—and in this case Zionism as settler colonialism—that came to flourish in their stead. The arc of Sosa’s work spans the transitions of the epoch and their attendant affective economies: from the revolutionary hopes of the 1960s–1970s, to the deep...

..., brought to bear on recent affect theory, show it to be often inadequate in its use of key concepts. This biosemiotic analysis, then, indicates three directions forward: first, toward an adjustment of certain claims of object-oriented philosophers sometimes allied to the affect theorists; second, toward...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2007 “The Aesthetics of Minor Affects”: The Other Modernity Daniel T. O’Hara I take the quotation in my title from the last sentence of Sianne Ngai’s Ugly Feelings. It declares...

... as diplomatic strategies on the part of the United States, the discourse of affective affinity and national unity across the Taiwan Strait is becoming forcefully attractive, often advocated in the figure of brotherhood, shared interests, or even intimacy. This essay argues that the relationship between Taiwan...

... mode of poetic reference. Finally, Wordsworth's materialism is shown to induce a peculiarly impassive type of affect, one that troubles the ways in which affect has been mobilized in recent theoretical discussion. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 poetics romanticism materialism affect...

... normative literary modernity has been displaced by an “informatic modernization.” A new urban Hinduness asserts itself more by its affects and spectacles than through the act of narration. This “informatic” public culture can orchestrate signs, emblems, mantras, and doctrines of disparate affiliations...

... between the public and the private in the contemporary United States. Franzen reflects on the challenges that this situation of cultural entropy poses to the novelist, and on the capacity of the novel to respond to or affect this situation. Recognizing and rejecting the temptation in fiction to convey...

... such as Strange Country and Foreign Affections . Informed by a commitment to European and Irish republican values elaborated in the radical Enlightenment and animated by a sometimes bristling engagement with an Ireland transformed by the Troubles in the North and by the culture of late capitalism across...

... that epitomized Rakim's work (known as the “Golden Age of Hip Hop”) as well as a deep affection for J. L. Austin's theory as an infinitely applicable and a fundamentally democratic ethos. Rakim’s Performativity Tracie Morris Field (post-Holla...

... affects the future of the philological imagination. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 In Critical Humanism Is Zarathustra No Longer a Scholar? The Future of Philology Marie-Rose Logan...

...] outcomes/affects. Duke University Press 2009 SOFT INDEX (OF repeating PLACES, PEOPLE, AND WORKS) Tan Lin All works sampled without alteration are indicated in the text with quo- tation marks. Absence of quotation marks indicates...

... of the Chinese Nationalist Party. I propose that the first postwar generation’s experience of suppression after 1945 and the second generation’s exuberant postcolonial visions in the 1990s are essential entry points to understanding the affective politics of national identity formation in today’s Taiwan...

..., the essay analyzes fantasy’s place in global violence and in the psychology of impunity. How does The Act of Killing signal a crisis in the global distribution of affect and accountability? How do bodily symptoms crystallize the negativity that underwrites social relations? The essay deploys psychoanalysis...

...Rob Wilson; Rob Wilson; Paul A. Bové Crazed with extremity of affect, thriller action, and a cosmopolitical style as befits the Korean-global blockbuster mode of auteur production, Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 film Snowpiercer also prods its audience to confront looming conditions of global warming...

... novel with formal and affective possibilities that becomes all the more significant because of its loss in the second half of the twentieth century. boundary 2 47:1 (2020) DOI 10.1215/01903659-7999557 © 2020 by Duke University Press 1911 in Chengdu: A Novel History Yi Zheng 1. Scaling the Modern...

...Jap-Nanak Makkar This review essay compares two early and two recent texts by N. Katherine Hayles and Mark B. N. Hansen. Considering their recent work in the context of Ruth Leys’s critique of the turn to affect, I argue that Hayles and Hansen use neuroscientific conclusions on a “missing half...

... informed critical vigilance—the power of affect, the mimetic power, in language and discourse. Book Reviewed: Hamacher Werner , Minima Philologica , translated by Diehl Catharine Groves Jason ( New York : Fordham University Press , 2015 ). Page references to this book appear...

... on poetics, Bernstein, I argue, consistently articulated with wit and precision why and how radical modernism affects what Jacques Rancière has called the “distribution of the sensible.” Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Charles Bernstein Jacques Rancière Language poetry dissensus...

... into a singular experience of the present, doing so by way of multiple registers of affect. This work is found not only in popular film songs but also in those of Indian art films; the anxieties over a transition to modernity is common to both varieties of filmmaking in the post‐independence moment. rmajumda...