Free Download Agnieszka Wolodzko, "Affect as Contamination: Embodiment in Bioart and Biotechnology"
English | ISBN: 135033300X | 2023 | 216 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Bringing the concept of contamination into dialogue with affect theory and bioart, Agnieszka Wolodzko urges us to rethink our relationship with ourselves, each other and other organisms. Thinking through the lens of contamination, this book provides an innovative approach to understanding the leaky, porous and visceral nature of our bodies and their endless interrelationships and, in doing so, uncovers new ways for thinking about embodiment. Affect theory has long been interested in transmission or contagion but, inspired by Spinoza and Deleuze,

Free Download Timotheus Vermeulen, "Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism"
English | 2017 | pages: 260 | ISBN: 178348960X, 1783489618 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture. By relating cutting-edge analyses of contemporary literature, the visual arts and film and television to recent social, technological and economic developments, the volume provides both a map and an itinerary of today's metamodern cultural landscape. As its organising principle, the book takes Fredric Jameson's canonical arguments about the waning of historicity, affect and depth in the postmodern culture of western capitalist societies in the twentieth century, and re-evaluates and reconceptualises these notions in a twenty-first century context. In doing so, it shows that the contemporary moment should be regarded as a transitional period from the postmodern and into the metamodern cultural moment.

Free Download Kaisa Koskinen, "Translation and Affect "
English | ISBN: 9027207038 | 2020 | 213 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In an age of AI and automated translation, the affective remains a decisively human condition. Translation and Affect is a collection of essays that investigate the role of affects and emotions across the spectrum of translatorial activities and areas, from public service interpreting to multilingual poetry recitals, from translator training to translation technology. In an effort at creating a consilient approach that bridges different research traditions in Translation Studies, Koskinen uses affective labour and affects and their stickiness as a lens to understand how it feels to translate and how translations feel. Written in a personal and engaging style, the book encourages readers interested in translation issues to look at translation as an affective practice and to explore and reflect their own ways of living with translation.

Free Download Nathaniel F. Barrett, "Enjoyment as Enriched Experience: A Theory of Affect and Its Relation to Consciousness "
English | ISBN: 3031137892 | 2023 | 379 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book has two main tasks: (1) to call attention to the special challenges presented by our experience of affect―all varieties of pleasure and pain―and (2) to show how these challenges can be overcome by an "enrichment approach" that understands affect as the enrichment or deterioration of conscious activity as a whole. This "enrichment approach" draws from Alfred North Whitehead as well as the pragmatists John Dewey and William James, all of whom thought of affect as a fundamental aspect of experience rather than a special class of feelings. It also draws from recent scientific research that suggests that the dynamic repertoire of consciousness can change, effectively expanding and contracting our capacity to feel. Weaving these perspectives together, the book develops a theory that accounts for the peculiar phenomenology of affect and sheds new light on a diverse range of experiences, from everyday pleasures and pains to the special satisfactions of the arts and religious festivity. At the same time, it presents a fresh and distinctively affect-centered perspective on the nature of consciousness.

Reconsidering Radical Feminism: Affect and the Politics of Heterosexuality By Jessica Joy Cameron
2018 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 0774837284 | PDF | 1 MB
What's the right way to be a feminist? Reconsidering Radical Feminism is not only a clear, precise summary of late-twentieth-century feminist debates about the politics of heterosexuality. It's also an examination of how we become invested in arguments that position us as particular kinds of feminists - and as gendered subjects. Through the lens of poststructuralism, queer theory, and affect theory, Jessica Joy Cameron investigates the legacy of the passionate dispute between radical feminism and sex-positive feminism. In doing so, she reveals the timeliness of her subject as contemporary policies about sexual assault, consent, and safe spaces come under scrutiny.

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions), 12th Edition by Pat Rushin
English | October 20th, 2021 | ISBN: 1478014679, 1478013745 | 409 pages | True PDF | 34.44 MB
Since its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi's pioneering Parables for the Virtual has become an essential text for interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the internet as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the postwar French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation.

Julie Taylor, "Modernism and Affect"
English | ISBN: 0748693254 | 2015 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This collection reconsiders Modernism in the light of the humanities' "affective turn"

Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry By Howard B. Levine
2021 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0367774356 | PDF | 5 MB
This book extends psychoanalytic theory and practice beyond neurosis to what formerly were the limits of analytic understanding, presenting and elaborating on the rationale and implications of the transformational dimension of psychoanalytic practice. This work sits at the crossroads of the thinking of Freud, Bion, Winnicott, Green and the Paris Psycho-Somatic School. It includes the thinking of other contemporary French psychoanalysts such as Laplanche, Donnet, L. Kahn and the Botellas, plus Alvarez, Scarfone, Ferro, Ogden, and more, re-examining Freud's epistemological bases and their implications for his theory of psychic functioning. The book follows Freud in elaborating on the radical implications of his 1937 Constructions paper that leads to and underlies the thoughts of Bion on intuition and Winnicott on the working through of the consequences of early pre-verbal environmental failure. In so doing, it makes a case for psychoanalysis as a powerful treatment for borderline, primitive narcissistic, post-traumatic and other character disorders and conditions - including perversions, addictions, psychosomatic, autistic and panic disorders. Offering readers a metapsychology that is both contemporary and clinically near, Affect, Representation and Language offering practitioners at all levels of analytic experience a way of understanding and treating contemporary patients.

Mairi McDermott, Kimberly Lenters, "Affect, Embodiment, and Place in Critical Literacy: Assembling Theory and Practice"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367136627 | PDF | pages: 247 | 1.7 mb
This book explores the impact of sensation, affect, ethics, and place on literacy learning from early childhood through to adult education. Chapters bridge the divide between theory and practice to consider how contemporary teaching and learning can promote posthuman values and perspectives.

Visual Arts Practice and Affect: Place, Materiality and Embodied Knowing By Ann Schilo (editor)
2016 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 1783487372 | EPUB | 4 MB
Visual Arts Practice and Affect brings together a group of artist scholars to explore how visual arts can offer unique insights into the understanding of place, memory and affect. Each contributor highlights the crucial role the creative arts play in envisaging new perspectives on the making of meaning, ones that are grounded in the practicalities, materialities and embodied knowing of artistic practice. Art offers other ways of seeing, thinking, understanding the world. It can be very messy, very challenging, but also moving, exquisite, astounding. The book opens a space for experiential appreciation by offering a writing that allows both the writer and the reader to consider those sorts of embodied sensibilities