Structures of feeling : affectivity and the study of culture

393 Pages·2015·2.28 MB·English

by  Bachmann-Medick

Concepts for the Study of Culture
Edited by
Doris Bachmann-Medick, Horst Carl,
Wolfgang Hallet and Ansgar Nünning

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Table of Contents
Concepts for the Study of Culture
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
1
2 Structures of Feeling and the Study of Affects
3 Affect Studies
4 A Case of Affect
5 Being Moved
References
Websites:
Structures of Feeling
1 Producing Affect
Mediashock
1 Introduction
2 Premediation
3 Geoaffective Mediation
4 Mediashock doctrine
References
Websites
Parsing Affective Economies of Race,Sexuality, and
Gender: The Case of ‘NastyLove’
1
2
3
4
References
Affect Image, Touch Image
1 Texture | Texxture
2 Deleuze’s Texture
3 Discrete Entity
4 [k]not a conclusion
References
Introducing Wounds: Challenging the ‘CrapTheory of
Pain’ in Nikola Lezaić’s Tilva Roš
1
2
3
4
References
Websites:
Affect, Biopolitics and the Field ofContemporary
Performing Arts
1 Considering Theatrical Performance as
Biopolitical Practice
2 Materiality of Affect and its Historicity Within the
PerformingArts
3 Actual Virtuality
4 Conclusion
References
Websites
Reflections on Fear as a Structure of Feelingin Large
Scale Installations in ContemporaryArt
2
3
References
Websites:
2 Affective Pasts
Compelling Affects Structured Feelings:Remembering
911
2
3
References
Websites:
Staging Emotions: On Configurations ofEmotional
Selfhood, Gendered Bodies, andPolitics in the Late
Eighteenth Century
1 An Emotional Public Space and Civic Self
2 Gendering Emotions
3 Doing and Staging Emotions
4 Staging Patriotic Emotions
5 Conclusion
References
Nostalgia and Nostophobia: EmotionalMemory in
Joseph Roth and Herta Müller
1 Introduction
2 Nostalgia Revisited
3 Home, Sweet/Disgusting Home
4 The Aesthetics of Emotional Memory
References
‘Affects as Stabilizers of Memory’? - The Literary
Representation of Emotion, Affect, and Feeling in Self-
Reflexive Autobiographies
1 Introduction
2 Emotion, Affect, and Feeling
3 Feelings and the Cartesian Divide
4 Emotion and Pseudo-Memory
References
“The Past Beats Inside Me Like a SecondHeart”: The
Narrative (Re)Construction ofEmotions in John
Banville’s The Sea
1 Introduction
2 ‘Emotion-Making’ through Narrative
3 Narrativising Emotions in The Sea
4 Limits of Narrative as an Affective Instrument
5 Conclusion: The Narrative-Emotion Nexus as a
Promising Field of Research
References
3 Affective Thinking
Affect and Feminist Methodology, Or WhatDoes It
Mean to be Moved?
1 The Many Lives of Affect
2 The Temporalities of Affect
3 The Scents of Affect
References
The Curious Case of Affective Hospitality:Curiosity,
Affect, and Pierre Klossowski’sLaws of Hospitality
1 Curiosity as Affect
2 Klossowski’s Laws of Hospitality
References
“What Can This Sorrow Be?”: ElegiacAffectivity in
Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room
1 The Elegiac Lamentation
2 Curious Sadness and Audible Lamentation
3 Echoes of Apostrophe
4 Affective Resonance
References
“One Thing Melts into Another”: Unanimism,Affect,
and Imagery in Virginia Woolf’s TheWaves
1 Unanimism and Literature
2 From a Body in Space to a Bodily Space
3 Woolf and Unanimism
4 Two Figurative Strategies
5 The Body as Metaphorical Expression
6 The Circle and the Wave
7 Performative Language
References
Towards a New Thinking on Humanism inFernand
Deligny’s Network
1
2
3
References
4 Circulating Affect
Sympathetic Mobilisation
1 Introduction
1 Theoretical Framework
1.1 Imitation and Biopolitics
1.2 Prestige and Sympathy
2 Analysis
2.1 Mobilising Illness Awareness: 65 Red Roses
2.2 Mobilising Environmental Awareness: Climate Justice
Fast
3 Concluesion
References
Websites:
A Strategic Romance? - On the Affective Relation
between Lady Gaga and Her Little Monsters in Online
Communication
1 Introduction
2 Establishing Stardom Through Media
3 Performing Privacy Online
4 Creating an Affective Online Environment
5 Strategic Affect?
References
Webpages
Experiences of Assisted Reproduction inVideo Blogs:
On the Aesthetic-AffectiveDimension of Individual
Fertility Projects onYouTube
Introduction
1 The Unique and Yet Modifiable Body – Pursuing
Fertility
2 Re-encodings – Strange and Yet Familiar Fertility
Projects
3 Concluding Remarks
References
Articulations of Well-being in Images ofBeauty and
Health
1 Introduction
2 Articulation of Affective Elements of Well-being in
Imagery ofK&T Magazine
2.1 The Analytic and Problem-oriented Articulations of
Well-being
2.2 The Affective and Pleasure-oriented Articulations of
Well-being
3 Conclusion
References
How to meet the ‘Strange Stranger’:A Sketch for an
Affective Biophilia
1 Biophilic Wonder
2 Biophilia’s Discontents
3 Towards an Affective Biophilia
References
The Characteristics of Traditional ChineseTheories of
Affect and their Impact on Artistic Creation: A Study
Based on SeveralKey Chinese Words
1 An Experimental Method for the Study of Key
Words
2 A Conceptual System of Affect According to
Chinese Thought
2.1 Air, Soul, and Heart: Three Keys of Human Life
Air
Soul