Feelings of Structure: Explorations in Affect

265 Pages·2018·50.201 MB·English

by  Karen Engle, Yoke-Sum Wong

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Explorations
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EDITED BY
KAREN ENGLE AND
YOKE-SUM WONG
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Montreal & Kingston | London | Chicago
© McGill-Queen’s University Press 2018
ISBN 978-0-7735-5451-1 (cloth)
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Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Funding has also
been received from the School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which
last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout
the country.
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dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art
dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Feelings of structure : explorations in affect / edited by Karen Engle
and Yoke-Sum Wong.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-0-7735-5451-1 (cloth). – ISBN 978-0-7735-5452-8 (paper). –
ISBN 978-0-7735-5571-6 (ePDF). – ISBN 978-0-7735-5572-3 (ePUB)
1. Affect (Psychology). 2. Emotions. I. Engle, Karen, 1974–, editor
II. Wong, Yoke-Sum, editor
BF588.F44 2018 152.4 C2018-903893-4
C2018-903894-2
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Acknowledgments xiii
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1 The Sofa’s Objection: Troublesome Things and
Affective Emplacements 12
KIMBERLY MAIR
2 Imagining Nighttime Detroit 29
MIChAEL DARROCh
3 Industrialism and the Time of Catastrophe:
A Lesson in the Anthropocene 48
CRAIG CAMPBELL
4 Still 67
ChRISTIEN GARCIA
5 The Tremendous Image: Viceland TV’s Abandoned
Series and the Persistence of Ruin Porn 76
LEE RODNEY AND ADAM LAUDER
6 Frames of Love, or Love’s Perspective 86
ADAM KAASA
7 Touched by a Whale 99
LESLEY STERN
8 Time Gets Strange: Texan Hard-Luck Stories 106
JOEY RUSSO
9 The Future Is Hybrid: Isamu Noguchi and the Mid-Century Modern 117
YOKE-SUM WONG
10 Coloniality and the Carbonscape: Reflections on White Settlement and
Sociogeny from inside a Cookie Factory 139
MARK JACKSON
11 In, around, and under Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan 162
KAREN ENGLE
12 Overwintering: On Robyn O’Neil’s Apocalyptic Landscapes 184
LINDSEY A. FREEMAN
Bibliography 199
Contributors 213
Index 217
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0.1 Untitled, © Derek Sayer, photographer 2
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2.1 “Neighbours,” The Ambassador 1, no. 1 (1939): 2–3.
Assumption College High School 1939–40 (1933).
Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive: University
of Windsor Publications 7. Accession number
14006, Box 81. Courtesy of the Southwestern
Ontario Digital Archive, Leddy Library, University
of Windsor 28
2.2 Fred H. Whipple, Municipal Lighting (Detroit: Free
Press Print, 1888), 161 33
2.3 “[Detroit, Mich., Campus Martius and Opera
House].” Glover, L.S. and Detroit Publishing
Company. Between 1900 and 1910. Library of
Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit
Publishing Company Photograph Collection
[lC-D4-37014] 34
2.4 “Locations of Street Lights. Map of the City of
Detroit, Michigan.” The Calvert Lith & Eng. Co. and
the Public Lighting Commission, Detroit. 1897.
Courtesy of the Detroit Historical Society 35
2.5 “[Campus Martius at night, Detroit, Mich.]”
Detroit Publishing Company. Between 1910 and
1920. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs
Division, Detroit Publishing Company Photograph
Collection [lC-D417-1326] 36
2.6 “Night Scene, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Detroit in
the Distance,” ca. 1930. Post Card & Greeting Co.