Affective Transformations : : Politics - Algorithms - Media / / edited by Bernd Bösel, Serjoscha Wiemer.

• TeilnehmendeR: Wiemer, Serjoscha,; Bösel, Bernd,
• Place / Publishing House: Lüneburg, Germany : : meson press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (243 pages) :; illustrations

"The Affective Turn has lost its former innocence and euphoria. Affect Studies and its adjacent disciplines have now to prove that they can cope with the return of the affective real that technology, economy, and politics entail. Two seemingly contradictory developments serve as starting points for this volume. First, technological innovations such as affective computing, mood tracking, sentiment analysis, and social robotics all share a focus on the recognition and modulation of human affectivity. Affect gets measured, calculated, controlled. Secondly, recent developments in politics, social media usage, and right-wing journalism have contributed to a conspicuous rise of hate speech, cybermobbing, public shaming, "felt truths," and resentful populisms. In a very specific way, politics as well as power have become affective. Affect gets mobilized, fomented, unleashed. When the ways we deal with our affectivity get unsettled in such a dramatic fashion, we have to rethink our ethical, aesthetical, political as well as legal regimes of affect organization"-- Publisher's description.

Table of Contents

Affective Transformations: An Introduction -- [1] Affect: On the Turn -- [2] Algorithm Awareness: Towards a Philosophy of Artifactuality -- [3] Affective Media Regulation: Or, How to Counter the Blackboxing of Emotional Life -- [4] From Social Data to Body Data to Psy Data: Tap, Tap, Tap 73 Oliver Leistert -- [5] Affective Milieus: Intensive Couplings, Technical Sentience, and a Nonconscious In-between -- [6] Synhaptic Sensibility -- [7] Encoding Proximity: Intuition in Human-Robot Collaborations -- Autonomous Dwelling: Smart Homes and Care IT -- [9] Happy, Happy, Sad, Sad: Do You Feel Me? Constellations of -- Desires in Affective Technologies -- [10] Mediated Humanitarian Affect -- [11] Affection and Dividuation 187 Michaela Ott -- [12] Attuning to What? The Uncanny Revival of the Aestheticization of Politics[13] Witnessing the Dismantlement of a Proven Structure of Belief: The Challenge of Populism and Alternative Facts to -- Liberal Democracy[14] Alien Thinking: On the Return of the Sublime as an Affective Medium -- Authors.