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Anti-Oedipus, Kinship, and the Subject of Affect: Reading Fanon with Deleuze and Guattari

Amber Jamilla Musser
Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 77–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1597341
Published: 01 September 2012
...-Oedipal relations. It also allows us to reconsider the theoretical implications of their work. On the one hand, it allows us to look more carefully at the affective implications of Fanon’s rejection of the Oedipus complex and understand his focus on solidarity in a new light. On the other hand, it renders...
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Debility, Negative Affect, Mobility: Undocuqueer Aesthetics and the Right to Thrive

Jorge Sánchez Cruz
Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 69–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9631145
Published: 01 June 2022
...,’” Julio Salgado's oeuvre, and Yosimar Reyes's #UndocuJoy , it is argued that undocumented queer subjects living under a landscape of debility and a climate of negative affect diagnose contemporary tactics of debility deployed as frames of illegality, securitization, and biopoliticization...
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Affect

Ann Pellegrini, Jasbir Puar
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 35–38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2009-004
Published: 01 September 2009
...Ann Pellegrini; Jasbir Puar This essay traces Fredric Jameson's important early analyses of the waning of affect and disappearance of the depth psychological subject under conditions of postmodernism, arguments he developed over the course of several essays in Social Text —beginning, in fact...
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From Shame to Drive : The Waning of Affect; or, The Rising of the Drive Image in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Sulgi Lie
Social Text (2016) 34 (2 (127)): 45–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3467966
Published: 01 June 2016
... for the aesthetic and social form of contemporary Hollywood cinema. What Jameson in Postmodernism called the atemporal “waning of affect” is hyperbolically exposed in both films, which are linked by their formal emphasis on accumulation, repetition, and looping. This late capitalist regime of accumulation...
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Affective Difference

David L. Eng
Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 161–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2820580
Published: 01 December 2014
...David L. Eng This essay is a tribute to José Esteban Muñoz (1967–2013). It explores Muñoz’s engagement with psychoanalytic theory and affective difference as they play out in queer theory’s “antisocial thesis.” I suggest that Muñoz’s conception of racial identity as a performative cluster of common...
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“Anxious Desires”: Hyperbolic Beautification and Affective Infrastructure under Mexico's National Border Program, 1961–1971

George F. Flaherty
Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 69–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10013318
Published: 01 December 2022
..., would buttress the “Miracle,” which had initially ignored these very citizens based on metropolitan perceptions of their lack of allegiance to Mexico and affinity for the US. Understanding spectacular architecture to have not only a didactic but an affective function, Pronaf deployed a network...
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“One Unique You”: Affective Attachments and DNA Testing as Ethnotechnological Apparatus

Deanna Cachoian-Schanz, Katia Schwerzmann
Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 71–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10174982
Published: 01 March 2023
... and identities, this study articulates two layers of analysis: first, the capitalization on affective attachments to cultural structures of belonging and kinship that genomics companies biologize as they offer up ethnoracial identities; 18 and second, the datafication of these ethnoracial identities...
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Affective Economies

Sara Ahmed
Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 117–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-22-2_79-117
Published: 01 June 2004
...Sara Ahmed Duke University Press 2004 Affective Economies The depths of Love are rooted and very deep in a real white nationalist’s Sara Ahmed soul and spirit, no form of “hate” could even begin to compare. At least...
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Colonial Object Relations

David L. Eng
Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 1–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3427105
Published: 01 March 2016
... the recent turn in affect studies emphasizing the redemptive quality of love in the reparative process by offering a very different reading that I describe as “colonial object relations.” Attention to colonial object relations reveals the ways in which affect is unevenly distributed in the history of liberal...
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The Uses of Happiness in Counterinsurgencies

Laleh Khalili
Social Text (2014) 32 (1 (118)): 23–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2391324
Published: 01 March 2014
...Laleh Khalili This essay examines the instrumentalization of emotions and affect—especially of happiness—in evaluating the outcome of counterinsurgencies. Traditionally, metrics and statistics have been utilized as the main means of measuring the achievement of military goals. However, given...
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Depression Today, or New Maladies of the Economy

John Andrews
Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 167–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-031
Published: 01 June 2009
...John Andrews Drawing on recent theories of affect and affectivity, this essay argues that depression is an “affect” that connects the individual and the social. In particular, depression serves as both a response to, and a cause of, economic fears and uncertainties—a “quasi-cause” that opens up...
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Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar

Neel Ahuja
Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 127–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1210292
Published: 01 March 2011
..., which targeted the detainee's purported entomophobia, was never actually carried out; however the memo's rationale for the technique reveals the ways in which logics of species, race, sexuality, and disability co-produce technologies of biopower and economies of affect within contemporary US imperial...
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The Illegalities of Brownness

Armando García
Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 99–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2869247
Published: 01 June 2015
... to a 2010 PostSecret card created by an “illegal” person. These cultural forms of migrant suffering render visible the centrality of affect and racial performativity to the undocumented student and migrant rights movements. The author argues that the brown feelings of migrant persons do not just refute...
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Domestic Affairs: National Security and the Politics of Protest at India's “Friendly” Borderlands

Sahana Ghosh
Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 61–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9771063
Published: 01 September 2022
..., and othered from fulsome democratic rights and citizenship, this essay offers a portrait of the slow violence of affective rule in a place of “no conflict.” Turning away from spectacular instances of militarism and state violence, this essay illuminates the affective force of militarization whose goal...
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“You Make Me Feel Right Quare”: Promiscuous Reading, Minoritarian Critique, and White Sovereign Entrepreneurial Terror

Kyla Wazana Tompkins
Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 53–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-4223393
Published: 01 December 2017
...Kyla Wazana Tompkins This article uses two ephemeral patent remedy advertisements from the 1890s to examine an aesthetic-affective category I call white sovereign entrepreneurial terror. Linking the period before the rise of progressivism and New Deal economics to the total collapse and evacuation...
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The Visual Frequency of Black Life: Love, Labor, and the Practice of Refusal

Tina M. Campt
Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 25–46.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-758503
Published: 01 September 2019
.... The article stages an encounter with the affective registers of refusal enacted in a genre of black visuality defined as still-moving-images. Still-moving-images hover between still and moving images and require the affective labor of feeling with or through them. The article concludes by expanding...
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Gendered Security/National Security: Political Branding and Population Racism

Patricia Ticineto Clough, Craig Willse
Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 45–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2010-010
Published: 01 December 2010
...Patricia Ticineto Clough; Craig Willse Drawing from theories of affect economies as well as discussion of biopolitical distributions of life and death, this essay explores the public mediation of gendered security and national security in terms of a political branding that circulates notions...
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Cinematic Contact Zones: Hemispheric Romances in Film and the Construction and Reconstruction of Latin Americanism

Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 119–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2010-006
Published: 01 September 2010
...), Week-End in Havana (dir. Walter Lang; 1941), Melodías de América (dir. Eduardo Morera; 1941), Apartment Zero (dir. Martin Donovan; 1989), Spanglish (dir. James L. Brooks; 2004), and Bossa Nova (dir. Bruno Barreto; 2000)—this essay reconstructs an affective history of Latin Americanism and its...
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Homo Dissensum Significans , or The Perils of Taking a Stand in China

Gloria Davies
Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 29–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1416082
Published: 01 December 2011
...Gloria Davies This essay begins with the proposition that to engage with the idea of the human in Chinese is to encounter, at some point or other, a rhetorical disposition to benevolence, understood as the Confucian virtue ren . The moral affects of this disposition, I argue, have been hardwired...
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Archives of Empire: Seher Shah's Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force

Bakirathi Mani
Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 127–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-1300001
Published: 01 September 2011
... imperialism across the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, with specific attention to the performative effects of photography. Recent debates on the uses of the archive in contemporary photography highlight the affective qualities of iconic national or personal images. However, Shah's work resists...
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