How to Do Things with Affects

Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39769-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Alphen, Ernst van

Jirsa, Tomáš

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ernst van Alphen, Ph.D. (1988), University of Utrecht, is Professor of Literary studies at the University of Leiden. His most recent books are Failed Images: Photography and Its Counter-Practices (2018) and Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media (2014).

Tomaš Jirsa, Ph.D. (2012), Charles University, is Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Literature at Palacký University Olomouc. He has published books and articles on the relations between modern literature and the visual arts, media theory, and the affective aesthetics of music videos.