Full Description
This volume fosters a re-imagination of the planet where it is seen not only as a resource, but also as an entity that must not be excluded from the political imperative of care and kinship. The authors go beyond the normative understanding of space by recognizing the potency of touch, where they look at somatic experiences that invite the intensity of affect.
This book questions the dominance of the capitalocene through the existence of social aesthetic and records the affective encounters that facilitate the creation of planetary identity, affinity, and entanglements. With discussions on architecture, poetry, rap music, romantic literature, performance art, digital fashion, Instagram, Netflix shows, YouTube videos, moving image practices, eco-sexual movements, and graphic narratives, the chapters in this volume initiate a conversation on what it means to inhabit the world today.
An important contribution, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of environmental humanities, planetary humanities, affect studies, digital humanities, and media studies, besides also being of interest to those studying interdisciplinary critical/cultural theory, Television and film studies, philosophy, and architectural theory.
Contents
1) Architecture Affects: From Phenomenology to Planetarity 2) In-Between Performances: Worlding, Ethical Consciousness and Affective Responses to Contemporary Choreographies 3) Sound of Resistance: A Study of Climate and Culture through Rap Music 4) Travel, Medical Affect and the Romantic Planetarity 5) Performance Art and 'Affect': Negotiating 'Planetarity' in the context of Global Consumerism and Materiality 6) Feel-ing Poetry: Affective Aesthetics of Instapoetry 7) Child's Play and Survival: Examining Children's Games in the Squid Game 8) The YouTube Reaction Video as a site of Affective Fan Practices 9) 'No one understands the Savagery of this Place': Affect and Sense of a Place in Louise Glück'sA Village Life 10) Composing the [ ] Inhuman 11) Non-Human Visions: From Experimental Cinema to Hollywood 12) Submergence 'Within' and 'Without': Local and Planetary Memories in Arula Ratnakar's 'Submergence' 13) Erotic environmentalism: The Awegasmic Activism of Ecosexuality 14) To Stare or Not to Stare: An Affective Study of Disability through Select Hindi Films 15) Shame and its Lovers: Unstable Affective Transmissions in Garth Greenwell's Fiction 16) The Politics of Pain and Anger: Representing Sexual Trauma in Graphic Narratives
