I would add Leila Gandhi's "Affective Communities" Jon Beasley-Murray's "Posthegemony" Teresa Brennan's "Transmission of Affect" and some of her other work Recently also came across Eva Ilouz - "Making of Emotional Capitalism" and the special issue of Angelaki on Subalternity and Affect Last Spring (2011) I taught a grad seminar on Subaltern Studies, Affect and Labo(u)r and we had many a good discussion on these intersections. Eve Sedgewick and Lauren Berlant are also names to look at btw. My question though - why Affect - why now and why now in relation to postcolonial theory? (incidentally - I am working on a book length project examines coding of affect in networks, platforms, through labor, technology, postcoloniality, subalternity, globalization, aesthetics etc - but that work is also coming out in bits in my ongoing publications - articles and book chapters and I wont be able to fully work on that until my current book - Weavings of Virtual and Real - now in the formatting stages - gets finally off the shelf - I think I shared a bit of that with Koen by email a while ago already). On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) <K.H.A.Leurs@uu.nl>wrote:
Dear all,
I have searched the AIR-L archives but this did not yield any results, therefore I'm directing my question to the full AIR audience: I'm trying to get an overview of critical studies of internet cultural practices that have employed the lens of affectivity.
I'm looking at YouTube video consumption of minority youths myself, and throughout the interviews emotional attachments to for instance diasporic materials were foregrounded. I'm trying to gauge the meanings of these processes and I'm starting to believe the recent critical work on affectivity might be a good entry point.
Feminist/critical theory/post-colonial/anti-race/migration/queer work on affectivity & technologies is especially welcome.
I will post back to the list an overview of responses.
Kind regards,
Koen.
These are my own findings so far: Ahmed, S. (2010). Happy objects. In M. Gregg and G.J. Seigworth (Eds.), The affect theory reader, (pp. 29-51). Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Ahmed, S. (2004). The cultural politics of emotion. New York, NY: Routledge. Boehm, D.A. & Swank, H. (2011). Introduction. Special issue on affecting global movement: The emotional terrain of transnationality. International Migration, 49(6), 1-6. Diminescu, D. (2008). The connected migrant: an epistemological manifesto. Social Science Information, 47(4), 565-579. Hansen, M.B.N. (2004). New Philosophy for New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Hillis, K. (2009). Online a lot of the time. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Koivunen, A. (2010). An affective turn? Reimagining the subject of feminist theory. In M. Liljeström & S. Paasonen (Eds.), Working with affect in feminist readings, (pp. 8-28). New York, NY: Routledge Leung, L.Y.M. (2011). ‘Pro-suming swearing (verbal violence). ‘Affect’ as (feminist) internet criticism. Feminist Media Studies, 11(1), 89-94. Massumi, B. (2002). Parables for the virtual: Movement, affect, sensation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Nelson, A. & Hwang, J.W. (2012). Roots and revelation. genetic ancestry testing and the YouTube generation. In L. Nakamura & P.A. Chow-White, Race after the Internet (pp. 271-290). New York, NY: Routledge. Sedgwick, E.K. (2003). Touching feeling: Affect, pedagogy, performativity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Wise, A. & Velayutham, S. (2006). Towards a typology of transnational affect. Sydney: Macquarie University, Centre for Research on Social Inclusion. Retrieved from: http://www.crsi.mq.edu.au/public/download.jsp?id=10615 (Accessed February 1, 2012).
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