...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...Nat Raha The affects of transfeminine life and their relationship to the material conditions undergirding such life are undertheorized in transgender studies and queer studies. This creative and critical essay conceptualizes transfeminine brokenness through negative experiences and emotions...

... not only by the imperatives of assessing migrant lives within circumscribed metrics of productive worth but also with the uncomfortable and messy emplacement of these migrant subjects within geographic, affective, and political arenas. Through ethnographic observations and interviews of queer migrants...

... of prejudice. Fascism depends on affective attachments, magnified by prejudice (a magnification that takes place through identification with a leader). This is a clear theme in Adorno’s critical theory. In his previous work in The Authoritarian Personality , Adorno set out the task to discover differential...

... conditioned the transformations of the nation-state. We present construction(-destruction) as the nodal apparatus of the AKP rule that has articulated these transformations with those of capital toward forcing a regime change. From the angle of this essay that draws from affective dynamics...

...Francesco Brancaccio This essay will show what are some of the qualifying characteristics of the theoretical construction of the law of the common. It will be divided into two parts. In the first part, I will review some of the main structural modifications that affected modern law with the advent...

...) distinguishing between ideology and propaganda; 2) understanding ideology in relation to current conditions—especially the abundance and novelty of affect, the shrinkage and acceleration of the ideologeme, and the global circuitry of intellectual exchange; 3) emphasizing the affirmative aspects of critique...

... the contested process that left close to two million people outside the register, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sought to introduce CAA, ostensibly to ensure that non-Muslims were not affected by exclusion in the NRC. This article focuses on the reasons why this has not resolved the issue...

... solarities directs attention to the solar resources, effects, and affects latent in the environment. In particular, it directs us to the phenomenon of radiant life—the ways that life not only is sustained through the ongoing management of solar radiance, but also is itself materialized as radiant, entangled...

...June Wang; Xinyue Yu This essay explores the three currents of user-generated content (UGC) platform development in China: one is full of improvised endeavors in the cultural production through amateur creativity; one is featured with affective laboring and networking by prosumers, who struggle...

... the timeline of racial capitalism is represented in each reveals how blackness affects narrative time and historical time. In addition to the stolen land (dispossession of Native sovereignty) and the stolen life (African enslavement) that inaugurated the Americas, stolen time is a critical axis of analysis...