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The Reserve Army of Affectivity: Unemployed Labor in William Greaves's Psychodramatic Cinéma Vérité

Alex Pittman
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (1 (109)): 31–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9561409
Published: 01 May 2022
... parasitic extraction of value from life. I have used Greaves's In the Company of Men and its translations of psychodramatic communication as an opportunity to theorize the racial politics of affective labor, particularly as these politics are articulated through gender and formed at the intersections...
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Together Apart: FemTechNet and Feminist Online Collectives

Elizabeth Losh
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 133–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3662048
Published: 01 December 2016
... of knowledge production. Although more robust teleconferencing technologies have improved experiences of copresence for participants, stymied platform design, weak options for sustainability, exhaustion from affective labor, and scarce resources for community management continue to be challenges. Figure 1...
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Mika Rottenberg's Productive Bodies

Hsuan L. Hsu
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 41–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-002
Published: 01 September 2010
.... This essay considers how Rottenberg's stagings of industrial production lines engage with post-Fordist phenomena such as deindustrialization and affective labor. In works such as Time and a Half, Mary's Cherries, Tropical Breeze , and Dough , Rottenberg conveys the incongruity between industrial production...
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Immaterial Child Labor: Media Advocacy, Autoethnography, and the Case of Born into Brothels

Pooja Rangan
Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-012
Published: 01 December 2011
.... The article concludes by arguing that Born into Brothels puts to work the immaterial or affective labor of children in the production of cultural commodities as a humane and “empowering” alternative to coerced sex work. This move to mobilize the child as a new figure of economic promise indicates the vexed...
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The Only Way Out Is In: Girl 6 , Sex Work, and the Color Line

Anthony Reed
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 1–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2704616
Published: 01 September 2014
... style. The article concludes by briefly tracing Girl 6 's representational logics through Lee's controversial She Hate Me (US, 2004), which again uses the spectacle of sexual availability to underscore the creation of the private sphere as affective labor. Ultimately, this article argues...
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Big Affect: The Ephemeral Archive of Second-Wave Feminist Video Collectives in Canada

Marusya Bociurkiw
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 5–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3661991
Published: 01 December 2016
... funding for community cable access projects, and provincial arts funding in Québec is also among the strongest in Canada. Affective Labor There may be an affective reason for the Québec groups’ survival, in that they share a francophone culture that privileges extended mealtimes...
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Sentimental Activism as Queer-Feminist Documentary Practice; or, How to Make Love in a Room Full of People

Feng-Mei Heberer
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 41–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7584904
Published: 01 September 2019
... through these questions, the article studies the documentary work of queer-feminist migrant labor activism in East Asia. This work offers particularly valuable insight into a strategy summarized here as sentimental activism : the simultaneous repetition and radical decentering of liberal rights discourse...
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Machinic Intimacies and Mechanical Brides: Collectivity between Prosthesis and Surrogacy in Jonathan Mostow's Surrogates and Spike Jonze's Her

Alla Ivanchikova
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 65–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454430
Published: 01 May 2016
... human hosts.26 Highly personalized media like Google’s second index and Facebook exploit the user’s libidinal attachments to enhance machinic capacities and boost the company’s share of the market. Users’ cognitive and affective labor delivers astronomical quanti- ties of data to the machine...
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Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet

Nazli Akhtari
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013590
Published: 01 December 2022
... into national and diasporic commodities, Oriental artifacts that function as fetish objects, concealing the labor and conditions under which they were produced. Carpets as transnational commodities render possible certain affinities and affects in a transnational world. 54 Drawing on Moallem's...
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“Scotch! Scotch! Scotch!”: The Inoperative Domestic Scene in Chantal Akerman's Saute ma ville

Eleanor Rowe-Stefanik
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 55–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10278586
Published: 01 May 2023
... and that the product of the labor (whether emotional or physical) that they are seeing is not necessarily what the action presented would suggest. Akerman's soundscape gestures toward but ultimately resists parsing either the motivation behind the action of her character or her affective responses to her environment...
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Biopolitical Masochism in Marina Abramović's The Artist Is Present

Jaime Brunton
Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 63–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3776868
Published: 01 May 2017
...- ship, and reaps major profits for both Abramovi´c and her gallery representative, Sean Kelly), the affective relations produced by the mutual labor of artist and audience in the service of presence nec- essarily exceed the exchange of capital. To an extent, of course, all art produces affective...
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Art on Film at Finch College: Reproductive Labor in the Enrichment Economy

Tim Ridlen
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 81–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10278600
Published: 01 May 2023
..., regardless of whether or not they operated within the discursive mode of documentary film or made specific onto-epistemological claims for cinema. Underground film and moving image art utilized the social, intellectual, and affective labor of creative practice as much as they attacked the commodity status...
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“I'm Very Rich, Bitch!”: The Melodramatic Money Shot and the Excess of Racialized Gendered Affect in the Real Housewives Docusoaps

Alessa Dominguez
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2885486
Published: 01 May 2015
..., despite some limited self-r­eflexivity about affect and media, the franchise prefers to obscure the labor and financial aspects that fuel the melodramatic money shot. The reunion episodes provide an element of televisual self-­reflexivity that may not fully disrupt catharsis in a Brechtian manner but does...
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Wages for Face-Work: Black Mirror ’s “Nosedive” and Digital Reproductive Labor

Erin Greer
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 88–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631571
Published: 01 December 2020
... the fundamental analysis of repro- ductive labor offered by the WfH activists: if an exploitative system profits from it, such labor is alienated even when motived by genu- ine affection. The individualism of the scene of quasi- redemption is also striking, particularly when contrasted against the WfH cam- paign...
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Nonmaterial Overelaboration: Gender, Casting, and Camouflaged Labor in Pat Rocco's Promotional Travelogue

Finley Freibert
Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 89–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10654913
Published: 01 September 2023
... effectively outsourced labor to those who would perform it without pay. 10. As is well known, immaterial labor (also known as affective labor) has material impacts; for example, forms of under- and unpaid affective labor can lead to frustration, exhaustion, and trauma, which can have consequences...
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Slips, Breaks, and Tangles: Creative Collaboration and the Aesthetic Process of Trans-Subjectivity

April Durham
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 35–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3662000
Published: 01 December 2016
... in ways that exceed the limits imposed by normative social-­networking practices, which I argue resists the capture of affective labor to multiply and transform the subject into both an object and a networked social body. As we will see, beyond and beside the actions of those who...
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Female Labor and Digital Media: Pattie Maes, Postfeminism, and the Birth of Social Networking Technologies

Jonathan Cohn
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 151–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2209943
Published: 01 September 2013
... with the faults of masculinity, the Media Lab becomes synonymous with positive feminine pragmatics and affective labor. Indeed, Maes celebrates the pragmatics of the Media Lab specifically because of its associa- tion with those traditional forms of femininity and feminine labor that are also embraced...
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“I’m Washing My Dishes and Making a Movie”: Anne Charlotte Robertson and World-Making as Women’s Work

Anjo-marí Gouws
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 60–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631559
Published: 01 December 2020
... at the same time, and in a certain way, every time) and blank affect are paired with Babette Mangolte s station- ary camera, offering the viewer no respite from the Sisyphean labor in which its protagonist finds her being. The static camera and the drawn- out, real- time durational quality of the film casts...
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A Feminist Still: Documentary Form and Untimely Critique in Sheba Chhachhi’s Protest Photography

Lakshmi Padmanabhan
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631535
Published: 01 December 2020
... to or outside marches and protests, and to reconsider the valorization of certain forms of bodily motion, political movement, and affective labor over others. Similarly, I do not aim to rewrite the feminist histories of South Asia that have made my own research possible; rather, I explore how photographs...
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Sex on the Shore: Care and the Ethics of License in Jersey Shore

Misha Kavka
Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 101–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2885464
Published: 01 May 2015
... of License in Jersey Shore  • 117 eras throughout the house serves to amplify rather than dampen the affective labor involved in building a community ethos. The housemates must not only develop the collective meanings and values that will allow them to get along as a group, developing...
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