Search Results for negative affect

... emphasis on horizontal and egalitarian “class feelings” via performative displays of struggle, outrage, bitterness, and other negative dispensations—no doubt aimed to disrupt what Christian Sorace ( 2021 ) describes as the “re-verticalized” style of affective governance in the post-Mao era, particularly...

... survivors how to properly receive a gift ( Sorace 2017 ). The Communist Party also views negative affects ( fumian qingxu ) as politically threatening. In Jie Yang’s excellent book on laid-off workers, Unknotting the Heart , she argues that local authorities deploy a combination of Maoist-era propaganda...

.... These parties may conveniently shift between motivational, evaluative, and experiential connotations of emotion as a composite phenomenon, and attach new meanings to the discrete emotions that affective computing posits to measure, such as negativity, anger, and happiness. While affective computing may...

... affecting the behavior of the inmates around him who then have to be managed in turn. This negative impact on the operation of prisons reverberates beyond the walls of any particular unit or prison. Throughout the corrections department...

... they are bound to lose, a form of resignation that negatively affects their play and threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. “Beware of your really ‘giddy or euphoric’ feelings too!” warned another poster (Maid Marian 2009); “the strong emotions aroused by winning can be just as mind-clouding as any form...

... case so far, the city has adapted, Zelig-like and without full understanding, to the new situation. At one level, it might be possible to describe the shift in terms of a movement from trade to manufacturing, and then to service and finance. But the cultural and affective readjustments which...

... light, televisions, air-conditioning) make people dependent on those who provide electricity. Understanding the depth of negative affect requires thinking in terms of the clientelist political and economic relations that still predominate in this part of Mexico. In the logic of caciquismo , or “boss...

...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...

... with authority to make such fine utilitarian calculations” (437 US 153 [1978] at 187). 10 In a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed, two attorneys for Central Valley water districts made a similar argument: “Myriad factors negatively affect the well-being of the delta smelt. These include, but are not limited...

...- tions of the possibility of the truth commission? As I see it, this genealogy is informed by at least three historical trajectories: the politics of “negative commemoration”; postmodern assaults on truth; and the international human...

... a visual and symbolic unity. He addressed the second, she suggests, by rely- ing on the specifi cally musical epigraphs to affect the book’s readers emotionally (leaving the poetic epigraphs to affect them intellectually) and to prompt them to actively engage the text—for example, to sound out mentally...

... arose. And it did. Approaching Lille, a sound shattered the silence, and in the minutes that followed, we were all pulled into the same affective space and the same set of concerns. A man let out a loud and prolonged groan, one that prompted the usual anxiety on a train with British people on board...

..., the idea of public opinion as the expression of rationality is an idealization of two principles organizing this space. The first is the publicness of all discussion: all deliberations that affect people should be accessible to public...

... com- modity capitalism, an identity coming to be linked, positively or negatively, par- tially or completely, to the emergent organization of production, circulation, consumption, and use. Such identity issues are central to what...

... and negative characteristics. On the negative axis, port cities struggle with environmental crisis, susceptibility to epidemics, and endemic forms of crime, poverty, and corruption. On the positive axis, they are distinguished by high levels of multilingualism, social relationality, cosmopolitanism...

..., and contradictions inherent in current drug war policies. In this article, I explore 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...

... at an SSRC colloquium on secularism — as “antisecular,” “conservative,” and guilty of “generic identity politics.”1 Insofar as these are charges rather than arguments, they depend on a structure of affect in which the mere suggestion that there might be a “normative impetus internal to secularism...

... they are. But by focusing on internal resources and intentions, Rousseau forgot to mention all those whose mobility is affected by external constraints. To consider those constraints is to notice how the built envi- ronment—social practices and material infrastructures—can create...

... and a relentlessly negative portrayal of any and all governmental initiatives. It is significant that the only print news medium that was actually paid for in its entirety by the public was also the one that was absolutely consistent in its nega- tive...

... and affects take on some of the character of events. Physical space may not have vanished, but it is now perceived differ- 4. Paul Virilio, ZhheLost Dimension, trans. Daniel Moshenberg (New York: Semiotext(e), 1991), 13; 15. 5. Castells, op. cit. 2. 444 ently, in accordance...