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Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta

Lauren Berlant
Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 273–301.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-036
Published: 01 May 2007
...Lauren Berlant Duke University Press 2007 Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta Lauren Berlant Two nearly utopian moments mark the heart of the films...
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On Target: Aura, Affect, and the Rhetoric of “Design Democracy”

Christine Harold
Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 599–618.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2009-010
Published: 01 September 2009
..., 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...
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Affect Matters: Strolling through Heterological Ecologies

Dorothy H. B. Kwek, Robert Seyfert
Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 35–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4189155
Published: 01 January 2018
..., 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...
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Extracting Affect: Televised Cadre Confessions in China

Christian Sorace
Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 145–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7181871
Published: 01 January 2019
...Christian Sorace In this essay, I argue that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) affective sovereignty results from its ability to adapt confessional practices to fit its governing needs at different moments in history. I analyze what recent televised confessions of party cadres reveal about...
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See Something, Say Something: Security Rituals, Affect, and US Nationalism from the Cold War to the War on Terror

Deepa Kumar
Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 143–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4189203
Published: 01 January 2018
... seen a massive expansion of the national security state, marks a continuity of Cold War emotion management and national security affect. Employing Michael Billig’s concepts of “hot” and “banal” nationalism, the article contends that the nationwide “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign forms...
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How to Read the Future: The Yield Curve, Affect, and Financial Prediction

Caitlin Zaloom
Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 245–268.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-028
Published: 01 May 2009
...Caitlin Zaloom Financial prediction provokes intense affect. For bond traders, hedge fund managers, and economic planners, both statistical reasoning and affective discomfort surround professional judgments about the future. This article argues that contemporary financial knowledge is organized...
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The Other Road to Serfdom: Recovery by the Market and the Affect Economy in New Orleans

Vincanne Adams
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 185–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443601
Published: 01 January 2012
... with recovery, market logics used in recovery to build stock portfolios of recovery companies, the circulation of affect as a resource for profit, and the growth of nongovernmental and charity organizations that ended up doing the work that government contractors failed to do. Responding to growing cries...
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Reality Celebrity: Branded Affect and the Emotion Economy

Laura Grindstaff, Susan Murray
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 109–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2798367
Published: 01 January 2015
... of an emerging “emotion economy” that generates unique forms of celebrity by producing and circulating heightened emotional performances as “branded affect.” A key signifier of what reality TV is and is becoming, branded affect underscores the commodification of emotion in the contemporary media landscape...
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The Ambient Politics of Affective Computing

Angela Xiao Wu
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 21–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435427
Published: 01 January 2022
...Angela Xiao Wu Abstract Much attention to affective computing has focused on its alleged ability to “tap into human affects,” a trope also foundational to broader theorizations about big‐data surveillance. What remains understudied and undertheorized is affective computing's social life, where...
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Affective Economies and the Politics of Saving Babies’ Lives

Mara Buchbinder, Stefan Timmermans
Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 101–126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2346268
Published: 01 January 2014
...Mara Buchbinder; Stefan Timmermans Today, nearly every US baby is screened for more than fifty rare genetic disorders, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay. This article explores the dramatic expansion of state-mandated newborn screening by analyzing affective enactments within public...
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Affective Infrastructures and the Political Imagination

Hannah Knox
Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 363–384.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3749105
Published: 01 May 2017
... is it that materials become the grounds for politics? Focusing on the history of a road construction project in the Peruvian Amazon, the essay illustrates how politics becomes realized through engagements that entail the affective force of emergent materialities that break through or rupture a normalized understanding...
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Portrait and Scan

Jenna Grant
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 349–369.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262863
Published: 01 September 2021
... of pregnant women, family members, and doctors about color and black‐and‐white, to political and intellectual histories of color in Cambodia and in anthropology, to Buddhist ontologies of pregnancy and life. Across this diverse terrain, the notion of the image‐affect conveys how images stimulate affective...
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The Perfect Storm: Heat Waves and Power Outages in Buenos Aires

Valeria Procupez
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 351–357.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427475
Published: 01 May 2016
...Valeria Procupez This article discusses the unprecedented heat waves affecting the city of Buenos Aires—between December 2013 and January 2014—and the extended power outages that ensued. It focuses on this particular extreme case to examine a broader spectrum of shortcomings regarding energy...
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Bored Stiff: Sex and Superfluity in a Time of Crisis

Bruce O’Neill
Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 387–405.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841916
Published: 01 May 2015
... as an opportunity to explore the subjective and affective dimensions of radical exclusion in a prolonged moment of neoliberal instability. It asks, ultimately, what kind of danger does boredom, and the inclination to manage that boredom through consumer practices, pose? This is a historical and ethnographic...
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Shelf Lives: On Nostalgic Libraries

S. D. Chrostowska
Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 9–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3324992
Published: 01 January 2016
...S. D. Chrostowska This short essay considers the increasingly nostalgic life of physical books. From immaculate leather-bound collections to “dummy” libraries, in private homes or department stores, since at least the mid-nineteenth century, old books have enjoyed past-directed affective...
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Where Is This Place? Crowds, Audio-vision, and Poetry in Postelection Iran

Setrag Manoukian
Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 237–263.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2009-027
Published: 01 May 2010
... and affects that are articulating it. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 I thank Arang Keshavarzian and Michelle Hartman for their suggestions, Carin McCormack for her editing, Faisal Devji for the encouragement, and Dilip Gaonkar, who with his perceptive comments invited me to go further...
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Life amidst Rubble: Migrant Mental Health and the Management of Subjectivity in Urban China

Lisa Richaud, Ash Amin
Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 77–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816305
Published: 01 January 2020
...Lisa Richaud; Ash Amin While previous studies have documented the trials of rural-to-urban migration in postreform China, little is known of the consequences of urban demolition and attendant uncertainty on migrant mental health. Exploring the affective and subjective dimensions of life lived...
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Producing “Participation”? The Pleasures and Perils of Technical Engagement in Radio Activism

Christina Dunbar-Hester
Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 25–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2346241
Published: 01 January 2014
... imparting technical skill was a priority, arguably more important to this activist project was deepening political and affective commitment and constructing technology as a site to enact participatory politics and challenge elite expertise. 2014 Twenty people spent a weekend gathered around two...
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Measurement and Modernity: Height, Gender, and Le Corbusier’s Modulor

Dave Tell
Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 21–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7181826
Published: 01 January 2019
... in particular to the height and gender of Le Corbusier’s Modulor Man, I argue that the forgotten system of measurement has much to teach us about the affective economies that underpin modernity and ongoing practices of measurement. This essay recovers the midcentury political trajectory of the Modulor — its...
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“Entrenched in the Bmw”: Argentine Elites and the Terror of Fiscal Obligation

Mireille Abelin
Public Culture (2012) 24 (2 (67)): 329–356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1535525
Published: 01 May 2012
... on the other—are deployed by different actors with conflicting views of the proper distribution and location of sovereign power. Foregrounding the role of fiscal practices in the forging of political obligation and affective bonds between citizens and the state, the essay reflects on the efficacy of el...
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