Structures of Feeling: Affectivity and the Study of Culture

Published by De Gruyter 2015

Structures of Feeling

Affectivity and the Study of Culture

Edited by: Devika Sharma and Frederik Tygstrup

Volume 5 in the series Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110365481

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Raymond Williams coined the notion "structure of feeling" in the 1970s to facilitate a historical understanding of "affective elements of consciousness and relationships." Since then, the need to understand emotions, moods and atmospheres as historical and social phenomena has only become more acute in an era of social networking, ubiquitous media and a public sphere permeated by commodities and advertisement culture.

Concomitantly, affect studies have become one of the most thriving branches of contemporary humanities and social sciences. This volume explores the significance of the study of affectivity for already thriving fields of cultural analysis such as media studies, memory studies, gender studies and cultural studies at large.

The volume is divided into four sections. The first part, Producing Affect, brings together contributions which explore some of the ways in which new media works to produce and intensify affectivity. The essays making up the second part, Affective Pasts, explore the significance of affect to the ways we remember, commemorate and in other ways get hold of things in our recent and not so recent past – or fail to do so. The essays engage the affective production of presence in contexts such as 9/11, the emotional culture of the eighteenth century, and literary auto-fiction. The third part, Affective Thinking, examines various concepts, theories, and forms of thinking not so much to show how the thinking in question may inform the field of affect studies but rather in order to draw attention to the way in which these modes of thinking are themselves already attuned to matters of affect. New social relations and ways of being in a networked world are the common themes of the essays in the final part of the volume, Circulating Affect.

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Devika Sharma and Frederik Tygstrup, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Structures of Feeling Raymond Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
1. Producing Affect
Mediashock Richard Grusin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Parsing Affective Economies of Race, Sexuality, and Gender: The Case of ‘Nasty Love’ Eliza Steinbock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Affect Image, Touch Image Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Introducing Wounds: Challenging the ‘Crap Theory of Pain’ in Nikola Lezaić’s Tilva Roš Mirko Milivojevic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Affect, Bio-politics and the Field of Contemporary Performing Arts Anja Bajda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Reflections on Fear as a Structure of Feeling in Large Scale Installations in Contemporary Art Heloïse Lauraire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
2. Affective Pasts
Compelling Affects / Structured Feelings: Remembering 9/11 Esther Peeren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Staging Emotions: On Configurations of Emotional Selfhood, Gendered Bodies, and Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century Tine Damsholt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Nostalgia and Nostophobia: Emotional Memory in Joseph Roth and Herta Müller Martin Baake-Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
‘Affects as Stabilizers of Memory’? The Literary Representation of Emotion, Affect, and Feeling in Self-Reflexive Autobiographies Christiane Struth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
“The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heart”: The Narrative (Re)Construction of Emotions in John Banville’s The Sea Stephanie Frink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
3. Affective Thinking
Affect and Feminist Methodology, Or What Does It Mean to be Moved? Clare Hemmings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
The Curious Case of Affective Hospitality: Curiosity, Affect, and Pierre Klossowski’s Laws of Hospitality Robert G. Ryder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
“What Can This Sorrow Be?”: Elegiac Affectivity in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room Ane Martine Lönneker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
“One Thing Melts into Another”: Unanimism, Affect, and Imagery in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Elisabeth Skou Pedersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Towards a New Thinking on Humanism in Fernand Deligny’s Network Marlon Miguel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
4. Circulating Affect
Sympathetic Mobilisation Britta Timm Knudsen and Carsten Stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
A Strategic Romance? On the Affective Relation between Lady Gaga and Her Little Monsters in Online Communication Lise Dilling-Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Experiences of Assisted Reproduction in Video Blogs: On the Aesthetic-Affective Dimension of Individual Fertility Projects on YouTube Nathalie W. Soelmark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Articulations of Well-being in Images of Beauty and Health Matti Kortesoja Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
How to meet the ‘Strange Stranger’: A Sketch for an Affective Biophilia Lauren Greyson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
The Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Theories of Affect and their Impact on Artistic Creation: A Study Based on Several Key Chinese Words Yu Zhao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Artist’s associations/academies
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 268
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 6
Keywords: Affect; Cultural Studies; aesthetics; media

eBook

Published: March 5, 2015
ISBN: 9783110365481

Hardcover

Published: January 29, 2015
ISBN: 9783110369519