Search Results for affect

...Elizabeth Jane Bellamy Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Elizabeth Jane Bellamy Intimate Enemies : Psychoanalysis, Marxism, and Postcolonial Affect Beginning with the efforts of the Frankfurt school, there have been a number of ambitious attempts at a synthesis between...

...Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Duke University Press 2007 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes Sometimes I think the books that affect us most are fantasy books. I don’t mean books...

...Kalindi Vora Affective and biological labor such as that found in call center and surrogacy work are indices of new forms of exploitation and accumulation within neoliberal globalization, but they also rearticulate a longer historical colonial division of labor. In this essay, feminist materialist...

...Aida Hussen This essay explores the psychic dimensions of post-civil rights black representation. I ask, what kinds of desire and identification, what vision of history and futurity, and what lost objects and forms of grief, drive nationalist approaches to black literature? In turn, what affective...

... before. Despite these changes, this essay argues that public toilets continue to hold queer potential because of their intrinsic spatial qualities, their affective resonances, and their capacity to connect us with past times and events. As such, they provide sites for imagining sex outside of the erotic...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 CONGRESSIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AFFECTING LEGISLATION FLOYD M. RIDDICK THE FIRST SESSION of the Seventy-eighth Congress was convened on January 6, 1943, and ran through December 21, 1943. During that period the House and Senate...

... women a form of pleasure and desire that is not so easily correlated with traditional weddings and femininity. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Michele White Dirty Brides and Internet Settings: The Affective Pleasures and Troubles with Trash the Dress Photography Sessions...

...Sneja Gunew 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Sneja Gunew Technologies of the Self: Corporeal Affects of English To move past speaking foreign words to taking them...

...Nell Gabiam This article focuses on a set of physical maps drawn by Palestinians who were living in France in summer 2012 as well as the oral interviews that accompanied the mapping exercise. Drawing on the fields of critical cartography and affect theory, it examines the different meanings...

...Louise Knops In the latest wave of climate change activism, affects and time are everywhere. Most recent works have focused on these dimensions separately, the intersection between time and affectivity underexplored. This author argues that focusing on affects and emotions is crucial to understand...

...Lana Cook This essay explores how psychedelic experiences are expressed in literature and how readers and viewers experience these aesthetic forms. The author connects psychedelic aesthetics and theories of affect, cognitive science, and systems thinking to argue that psychedelic aesthetics offer...

...Ayse Akalin The services that the domestic worker performs are best described as affective labor. The interactions between domestic workers and their employers occur on the proximity of their bodies and therefore through the affective intensities that constantly are exchanged between them...

...‐based and symbolic notions like Disneyfication (Jean Baudrillard) and “the ascendancy of whiteness” (Rey Chow). Under our contemporary Asian cycle of capital accumulation, this geographic area's affective ubiquity appears much like that of the US by saturating global public sentiment. However...

..., and moments of vitalization to affirm the affective defeat and recompose collective forces in new questions for the future, joy, and dignity. The reflections shared here take place in a concrete practice of political reorganization that the authors call espacio.tierra, and they argue that the revolt does...

...—are directly linked to individuals’ complex interpretations of the affective and visceral experiences they go through while taking them. The transformative potential of the psychedelic renaissance may then lie precisely in those aspects of psychedelic experience that are the purview of cultural analysis...

... of the highest levels of wealth inequality in the world. This essay analyzes the contemporary post–social democratic political landscape in Sweden, arguing that it is characterized by a state of both dissociation and melancholia, interlinked affective responses to the intensifying social pressures and structural...

... on the inevitability of racial progress but that actually mask the mechanisms of white supremacy. anger racism black lives matter affect References Abrajano Marisa Hajnal Zoltan L. . 2015 . White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press...

... (including political, ideological, and psycho-affective) of a radical international thought. Going beyond articulations of anti-colonial struggle at the national level, the issue charts radical theories and praxes of insurgency and revolutionary violence and brings an internationalist framework to bear...

.... The neglect of inter‐subaltern interactions within the framework of methodological dualism has rendered it incapable of explaining the agential entanglement of “inter‐subaltern colonialism” and gender in the non‐Western nation‐building process and its subsequent impact on the affected groups. Addressing...

... legislated protections for persons seeking abortion and for medical providers. The total number of abortions in the United States does not appear to have changed in the year after the Dobbs decision, although the challenges to access have profoundly affected the lives of countless people. This article...