Affect Theory Reader 2

Gregory J. Seigworth is Professor of Communication and Theatre at Millersville University.Carolyn Pedwell is Professor of Cultural Studies and Media at the University of Kent.

“The Affect Theory Reader 2 surveys the burgeoning field whose development its predecessor did so much to catalyze. In the intervening thirteen years, the study of affect has spread its capillaries across an ever-growing spectrum of disciplines, while at the same time expanding the scope of its own problematics. This new anthology skillfully presents a much-needed digest of the state of the field today. The essays it brings together address a wide range of topics, opening new perspectives on some of the most pressing issues of our time, including, in a reckoning that is long overdue for the field, an emphasis on issues of race. This is an excellent and timely volume that readers interested in affect studies and allied areas will find indispensable.” - Brian Massumi, author of (Couplets: Travels in Speculative Pragmatism) “The essays in The Affect Theory Reader 2 offer galvanizing, clarifying experiments with thought and form. Wholly reimagined from its previous incarnation, this ‘cluster of attunings’ showcases the maturity of this line of inquiry and so many of its emergent conversations, while at the same time finding the mettle to rethink the origins and legacies of ‘affect theory’ as such. An exciting offering for anyone who imagines the minor registers of experience deserves an unmistakably major volume.” - Jordan Alexander Stein, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Fordham University "Much of The Affect Theory Reader 2 calls attention to how theory and practice co-constitute each other rather than oppose one another." - Jack Warren (Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory)

• Acknowledgments  xiIntroduction: A Shimmer of Inventories / Gregory J. Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell  1Part One. Tensions, In Solution1. The Elements of Affect Theories / Derek P. McCormack  632. Ambiguous Affect: Excitements That Make the Self / Susanna Paasonen  853. Tomkins in Tension / Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson  1034. Affect and Affirmation / Tyrone S. Palmer  1225. Unfuckology: Affectability, Temporality, and Unleashing the Sex/Gender Binary / Kyla Schuller  141Part Two. Minor Feelings and the Sensorial Possibilities of Form6. Minor Feelings and the Affective Life of Race / Ann Cvetkovich  1617. Resisting the Enclosure of Trans Affective Commons / Hil Malatino  1798. Too Thick Love, or Bearing the Unbearable / Rizvana Bradley  1919. Migration: An Intimacy / Omar Kasmani  214Part Three. Unlearning and the Conditions of Arrival10. Unlearning Affect / M. Gail Hamner  23311. Why This? Affective Pedagogy in the Wake / Nathan Snaza  25512. The Feeling of Knowing Music / Dylan Robinson and Patrick Nickleson 273Part Four. The Matter of Experience, or, Reminding Consciousness of Its Necessary Modesty13. Nonconscious Affect: Cognitive, Embodied, or Nonbifurcated Experience? / Tony D. Sampson  29514. Catch an Incline: The Impersonality of the Minor / Erin Manning  31515. Emotions and Affects of Convolution / Lisa Blackman  32616. Haunting Voices: Affective Atmospheres as Transtemporal Contact / Cecilia MacÓn  347Part Five. A Living Laboratory: Glitching the Affective Reproduction of the Social17. The Affective Reproduction of Capital: Two Returns to Spinoza / Jason Read  36718. Algorithmic Governance and Racializing Affect / Ezekiel Dixon-RomÁn  38419. Dividual Economies, of Data, of Flesh / Jasbir K. Puar  40620. Algorithmic Trauma / Michael Richardson  423Coda  447A Note / Kathleen Stewart  449Poisonality / Lauren Berlant  451Contributors  465Index  471