How to Do Things with Affects : Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices (How to Do Things with Affects [print & e-book])

Alphen, Ernst (EDT)/ Jirsa, Tomáš (EDT)

Brill（2019/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004397699
• DDC分類 801.93

Full Description

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 arrangements, and aesthetic matter, the book examines how affects operate and are triggered by aesthetic forms, media events, and cultural practices. Transgressing disciplinary boundaries and emphasizing close reading, the collected essays explore manifold affective transmissions and resonances enacted by modernist literary works, contemporary visual arts, horror and documentary films, museum displays, and animated pornography, with a special focus on how they impact on political events, media strategies, and social situations.

Contributors: Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Maria Boletsi, Eugenie Brinkema, Pietro Conte, Anne Fleig, Bernd Herzogenrath, Tomáš Jirsa, Matthias Lüthjohann, Susanna Paasonen, Christina Riley, Jan Slaby, Eliza Steinbock, Christiane Voss.

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Mapping Affective Operations

 Ernst van Alphen and Tomáš Jirsa

PART 1

Triggering the Affects

1 Reading Irony through Affect: the Non-Sovereign Ironic Subject in C.P. Cavafy's Diary

 Maria Boletsi

2 (An)Aesthetics of Affect: the Case of Hyper-Realism

 Pietro Conte

3 Relational Affect: Perspectives from Philosophy and Cultural Studies

 Jan Slaby

4 (Nearly) Nothing to Express : Horror : some Tread : a Toroid

 Eugenie Brinkema

5 Integrating Affect and Language: Essayism as an Affective Practice in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities

 Anne Fleig and Matthias Lüthjohann

PART 2

Sensations, Resonances, and Transformations

6 Affective Disfigurations: Faceless Encounters between Literary Modernism and the Great War

 Tomáš Jirsa

7 Monstrous Resonances: Affect and Animated Pornography

 Susanna Paasonen

8 Reading for Affects: Francis Bacon and the Work of Sensation

 Ernst van Alphen

PART 3

Affects as Triggers

9 Affectively Effective: Affect as an Artistic-Political Strategy

 Mieke Bal

10 Affect Is the Medium

 Christiane Voss

11 Et in Academia Ego: Affect and Academic Writing

 Bernd Herzogenrath

12 The Arab Spring's Stranger: the Affective Media Phenomenon of The Girl in the Blue Bra

 Christina Riley

13 Affective Exchange in Portraiture: to Follow J. Jackie Baier into the Photographic Dissolve

 Eliza Steinbock

Name Index