Atmospheric Attunements

Stewart, Kathleen

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“…Such sensory moments result in affective forces that charge atmospheres so that the world is animated through the engagement with things. Such a pre-conscious, ongoing, subtle tuning is the key to interpersonal becoming because it sparks new relations that alert the senses through moments that are distracting and surprising (Manning and Massumi, 2014;Stewart, 2011). Such distraction and surprise is evident when I show reluctance to paint.…”

Section: Indigenous Art Practices and Fragile Friendshipsmentioning

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Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia

Lobo

2017

Urban Studies

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Australia has one of the most urbanised and diverse populations in the world, but there is little research that explores fleeting friendships between marginalised/racialised ethnic minority and indigenous populations. In contrast to metropolitan cities in white settler societies that have been the focus of much research, this paper focuses on the small, tropical city of Darwin in Northern Australia. This is a city that is at the centre of public debates on indigenous wellbeing, migrant integration and asylum seeker policies, with social welfare programmes that provide little opportunities for hopeful encounters among indigenous peoples and ethnic minority newcomers in surface spaces. I argue, however, that 'grass root' forms of creativity in an 'underground' car park bring their affective worlds together through a shared passion for art. The paper draws on gentle methodologies including participatory visual methods to privilege non-Western ways of inhabiting place. Through a 'quiet politics' and affective engagement with spacetimes both proximate and distant, the paper shows that it is possible to invoke different futures and crystallise experimental publics in the diverse city. The paper responds to a call to push the boundaries of urban research on social difference through geographies of friendship that are yet to engage with multisensory bodies, emotion, affect and art.

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Section: Indigenous Art Practices and Fragile Friendshipsmentioning

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Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia

Lobo

2017

Urban Studies

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“…The relation between image and rhythm is therefore not one involving a relation between object and representation. Consequently, those participant-generated photographs may be useful in displaying valences, moods, sensations, and tempos of the "affective force fields" surrounding the musicians in their urban space (Stewart 2010). Instead of providing quantitative content for tables, charts, or diagrams, such images can capture or expose the dynamism of embodied movement and the affective tonalities present in certain moments and places.…”

Section: The Scene and The Unseen: Mapping The (Affective) Rhythms Ofmentioning

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The Scene and the Unseen: Mapping the (Affective) Rhythms of Wellington and Copenhagen

Rochow¹,

Stahl²

2017

Imaginations

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| The idea of rhythm has figured as a key conceptual and empirical motif in current research on urban space, place, and everyday life. This article offers a way of capturing, understanding, and interpreting the multifaceted rhythmical layout of urban spaces. It implements a rhythmanalytical methodology that draws on participant-generated photographs and mental maps as analytical tools in order to provoke compelling depictions of musical activity in the city. Based on current ethnographic fieldwork in the urban spaces of Wellington (Aotearoa/New Zealand) and Copenhagen (Denmark), this article proposes a fruitful technique of experience and experiment that seeks to recognise the interwovenness of socialities, atmospheres, object, texts, and images in people’s everyday lives and in this way affords opportunities for attending to the multiple rhythms underlying music-making in the city.Résumé | L’idée du rythme a été utilisée comme concept clé et motif empirique en recherche récente sur les espaces urbains et dans la vie quotidienne. Cet article apporte une méthode pour capturer, comprendre et interpréter les structures rythmiques complexes des espaces urbains. En introduisant une méthodologie rythmanalitique, cette méthode s’appuie sur des photographies et des cartes cognitives fournies par des participants comme outil analytique pour dépeindre l’activité musicale d’une ville. À partir d’une étude ethnographique sur les espaces urbains de Wellington (Aotearoa/Nouvelle Zélande) et de Copenhague (Danemark), cet article propose une technique expérimentale riche qui cherche à reconnaître les interconnections des milieux sociaux, des ambiances, des objets, des mots et des images dans la vie courante de chacun et offre ainsi une chance de suivre les rythmes multiples sous-jacent à la création musicale dans une ville.

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“…Tremendous anthropogenic shifts like global warming, as Timothy Morton has described, constitute 'hyperobjects' in their own right, epistemically disabling us as they place a mirror to human conceits and reflect a conspicuous fragility (Morton 2013b, 2). Air itself, and wind as its animated form, draws our attention to these contemporary moments of 'suspension' (Choy 2011;Choy and Zee 2015) and toward more atmospheric 'attunements' (Stewart 2011). Refigurations between material, human, and non-human worlds also demand that we imagine political possibilities beyond material determinisms and social structural theories that underwrote the industrializing logics of the past three centuries.…”

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Aeolian politics

Howe

Boyer

2015

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

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Our project in this article is to unwind 'wind power' as a consolidated conceptual object and to consider the ventifactual arrangements of its political materiality. In a time when carbon incineration has been exposed as among the greatest ecological threats to humanity and other life on the planet, renewable energy forms, like wind power, are commonly assumed to have a clear, logical, and obvious salvational purpose: a path away from fossilized resources and toward sustainable sources of energy. Mexico has established some of the most far-reaching and comprehensive climate legislation in the world, including mandates for renewable energy production. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the Southern state of Oaxaca, now hosts the densest concentration of on-shore wind development anywhere on the planet. We find, however, that the 'good' of wind is differentially felt. The power of the wind is not singular, but rather as multiple as the world it inhabits. We thus develop an argument against a singular interpretation of 'wind power' and toward a surfacing of wind's manifold effects and ways of mattering. We call this domain: aeolian politics. In this article, we take several snapshots of aeolian politics to help articulate its multiplicity, showing how wind power becomes contoured by land and desire and by infrastructure and technological management. We also see aeolian political life entangled with cosmologies and subjectivities and implicated within the ethical domains of sustainable development.

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Atmospheric Attunements

Cited by 721 publications

References 3 publications

Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia

Re-framing the creative city: Fragile friendships and affective art spaces in Darwin, Australia

The Scene and the Unseen: Mapping the (Affective) Rhythms of Wellington and Copenhagen

Aeolian politics

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