..., and practical failure. This article combines insights from recent affect theory and indigenous and non–North Atlantic societies in response to this epistemological and theoretical critique. It argues (1) that affect analyses can give a fuller account of the ways in which nonhuman others participate...

... that describes the traditional definition of rhetoric as the arts of persuasion. Speech act theory and performativity repeat the classical distinctions among grammar, logic, and rhetoric. But in the rhetoric of temporality , indirection becomes the use of tropes in context, creating the bivalent affects...

... : 905 – 23 . Robbins Bruce . 2002 . “ The Sweatshop Sublime .” PMLA 117 , no. 2 : 84 – 97 . Seigworth Gregory J. Gregg Melissa . 2010 . “ An Inventory of Shimmers .” In The Affect Theory Reader , edited by Gregg Melissa Seigworth Gregory J. , 1 – 25 . Durham...

... as computational media, affective computing creates more spacious room for social actors to maneuver, because the meanings of emotion terms are extraordinarily malleable. The construction of affective computing faces, more generally, competing established theories of emotion for model building, 9 and more...

... of Suspicion: Affective Politics in Mena Cities .” In Handbook for Cities in the Middle East , edited by Yacobi Haim and Nasasra Mansour , chap. 10. London : Routledge . Lutz Catherine . 2017 . “ Afterword: Producing States of Security .” Anthropological Theory 17 , no. 3 : 421...

... Seigworth Gregory J. , eds. 2010 . The affect theory reader . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . Gunewardena Nandini Mark Schuller , eds. 2008 . Capitalizing on catastrophe: Neoliberal strategies in disaster reconstruction . New York : Rowman and Littlefield . Guyer Jane...

... of their own inner states—we are not reintroducing the figure of the sovereign, autonomous subject that both poststructuralism and affect theory have convincingly overthrown. But, as Nigel Thrift (2008 : 85) writes: “A person becomes a shifting ensemble of states that are received and passed on, states over...

... assessment is as salient as when he published his General Theory. Yet his clear distinction between calculation and feeling tenders a modern fantasy (see Keynes 2008). The affects that Keynes assigns to the limits of reason accrue even...

... important than those dramas themselves, and also because Kant’s characterization of the affective, partial, but public thinking of spectators in response to the French Revolution captures some of the essential features of what democratic...

... with theories of pregnant women's practices influencing the physicality of the fetus. Visual and affective practices—petting the cat, and perhaps loving it too much; not looking at pretty pictures—have material consequences. Of course, this story is not only about the fetus. It is also about the ultrasound...

..., exchange value, and sign value need to be reconfigured. A new dimension of the object is emerging, one that is best understood as combining aura and affect. Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 For his insightful contributions, I thank Ken Rufo. This article is part of a larger project...

... of semantic change, for example, do not do justice to the affective and rhetorical questions involved in tracing enthusiasm’s volatile political history. Clement Hawes has helpfully suggested that enthusi- asm is best understood as a rhetoric, a “manic style...

... often have prior local or subnational attachments that have to be explicitly erased by national pro- paganda in order for nationalism in its strong form to exist. No theory of folk identity, however plausible, can account for the affective side of nationalism, since it is only through the vehicle...

... . Berlant Lauren . 1993 . “ The Theory of Infantile Citizenship .” Public Culture 5 , no. 3 : 395 – 410 . Berlant Lauren . 2007 . “ Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta .” Public Culture 19 , no. 2 : 273 – 301 . Bloomfield Leonard...

... call a "rhetoric of affect," rarely ever rises above the journalistic level: vague generalizations, sweeping summaries of historical developments and intellectual trends, poor documentation, and so fork2 If one had...

... site of interest in literary studies. Such influential thinkers as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lauren Berlant, Sianne Ngai, Anne Anlin Cheng, and Sara Ahmed have brought about a powerful affective turn in the field. Meanwhile, the term “structure” continues to feel like a relic of a superseded past...

... of social engineering by state elites seeking to squash the course of the class struggle ( Hobsbawm and Ranger 1983 ). IC was much more concerned with the affective force of nations to inspire ordinary people to die for their sake. Anderson’s anthropological parsing of the nation as an “imagined...

... is the author of “Making Affect Safe for Democracy? On Constitutional Patriotism,” Political Theory (February 2000), and Bound by Recognition (forthcoming). Introduction: Violence, Redemption, and the Liberal...

... the elusive, haunting positionalities and experiences produced by narco-accusations in rural areas of northern Mexico. In particular, I reflect on the political and affective consequences of these accusations for the working-class poor who are most explicitly implicated by them. The term narco , on the one...

... not through self-interest but through affective dispositions such as solidarity and “trust,” as the premier theorist of social capital, Robert D. Putnam, has put it.28 With trustful, solidaristic relations now considered key to the wealth...