How to do things with affects : : affective triggers in aesthetic forms and cultural practices / / Tomas Jirsa.

How to Do Things with Affects develops affect as a highly productive concept for both cultural analysis and the reading of aesthetic forms. Shifting the focus from individual experiences and the human interiority of personal emotions and feelings toward the agency of cultural objects, social arrange...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Brill,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 34.
Physical Description:1 online resource (289 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Mapping Affective Operations / Ernst van Alphen and Tomáš Jirsa
  • Triggering the Affects
  • Reading Irony through Affect: the Non-Sovereign Ironic Subject in C.P. Cavafy’s Diary / Maria Boletsi
  • (An)Aesthetics of Affect: the Case of Hyper-Realism / Pietro Conte
  • Relational Affect: Perspectives from Philosophy and Cultural Studies / Jan Slaby
  • (Nearly) Nothing to Express : Horror : some Tread : a Toroid / Eugenie Brinkema
  • Integrating Affect and Language: Essayism as an Affective Practice in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities / Anne Fleig and Matthias Lüthjohann
  • Sensations, Resonances, and Transformations
  • Affective Disfigurations: Faceless Encounters between Literary Modernism and the Great War / Tomáš Jirsa
  • Monstrous Resonances: Affect and Animated Pornography / Susanna Paasonen
  • Reading for Affects: Francis Bacon and the Work of Sensation / Ernst van Alphen
  • Affects as Triggers
  • Affectively Effective: Affect as an Artistic-Political Strategy / Mieke Bal
  • Affect Is the Medium / Christiane Voss
  • Et in Academia Ego: Affect and Academic Writing / Bernd Herzogenrath
  • The Arab Spring’s Stranger: the Affective Media Phenomenon of The Girl in the Blue Bra / Christina Riley
  • Affective Exchange in Portraiture: to Follow J. Jackie Baier into the Photographic Dissolve / Eliza Steinbock.