Mediating potency and fear: action movies’ affect

Christiansen, Steen Ledet

doi:10.1080/09502386.2017.1400573

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“…These data of no-human-thing problematize my understanding of data as known and familiar. This forces me to think what would emerge when data do not materialize just through human, voice, and researcher but through "affective translators" (Christiansen, 2018); sea, tunnel, graffiti, and shark. These more-than-human bodies as posthuman data could not be categorized and coded into themes; rather, they exhibit a "vibrancy that does something to the researcher," a "wonder" and an intensity emanated from data, a "glow" (MacLure, 2013a(MacLure, , 2013b.…”

Section: Trans-materializing the No-thing Body/datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Bodies of Walking: Trans-Materializing the Experiences of Racial Harassment

Zarabadi¹

2023

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Partaking in some of the material and affective moments and movements that emerged from my PhD research, I map the ontological, epistemological, and ethical possibilities/impossibilities that trans-corporeality and trans-materiality open in my research. Using walking and photo-diary as PhEmaterialist multisensory methodologies, I followed 15 Muslim schoolgirls in two London secondary schools (East Dulwich and Bethnal Green) mapping relational materialities between things that matter for them in their ordinary everyday practices and experiences. Employing Jane Bennett’s creative and absorbent I as a partaker rather than either actor or recipient, taking in and being taken up by virtues specific to the moment, this article materializes some partaker agencies and “more-thans” that Maha (my PhD participant) and I walked, made, challenged, and became with in different “spacetimematterings.” I argue that social injustice and inequalities, gendered and racial harassment as political, ethical, and material issues, are not always raised by those represented or able to name and speak up as part of social structures but emerge through complex webs of power relations and ordinary, everyday material moments and affective encounters. I consider bodies of walking as partakers of influx and efflux, many “I”s, moving and making the moments and experiences of racial harassment, affective entanglements, and the potentialities of the virtual, material, and affective that emerge in-between human and more-than-human walking bodies.

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Section: Trans-materializing the No-thing Body/datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Bodies of Walking: Trans-Materializing the Experiences of Racial Harassment

Zarabadi¹

2023

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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“…It sets in motion thinking about what could emerge when data is not mediated through voice, human or researcher, but through sewing machines and walking in Brick Lane. Data becomes a sense-event (MacLure, 2013b), where ordinary objects, materials, nature and more-than-human entities are affective translators (Christiansen, 2018) opening up new capacities for Farah to become differently. In our walking intra-view, Farah showed me a shop in Brick Lane where her mother learned to sew (Figure 5): She built up a lot to get to where she is now, she can't speak English she thinks that she is not good at certain skills but she learnt to sew here [in this shop] and with sewing she kind of proved them all wrong, that she can do things, she can make a business and she can work here, nowadays she really tries to belong in the community and do it as a work.…”

Section: Sewing Machine and Brick Lanementioning

confidence: 99%

Moving and Mattering with the Wall-ed Feelings: A Posthuman Movement between Possibilities and Impossibilities of Becomings in Educational Research

Zarabadi¹

2022

Cult. and Ped. Inq.

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“…As long as these movies last, dopamine guarantees the journey will be intoxicating (cf. Christiansen, 2018;Jo et al, 2018). 4 Although some scholars (including myself) sometime divide such reasoning into distinct domains (social versus physical cognition), when it comes to human higher-order thinking, at least, I tend to see these divisions as more apparent than real, more about academic book-keeping than the way higher-order thinking is functionally organized.…”

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Can Comparative Psychology Crack its Toughest Nut?

Povinelli¹

2020

AB&C

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What is the likelihood that humans will ever determine if other animals engage in higher-order thinking? In examining what has happened in the twenty years since the publication of our book, Folk Physics for Apes, I conclude that comparative psychologists, the academic stalwarts charged with making progress on this front, are stuck in a series of intractable, and largely unacknowledged, conceptual problems. Because higher-order mental states depend on the existence of first-order, perceptually-based representations of objects and events, and because those first-order representations are necessary and sufficient to explain current experimental and observational results, the approaches deployed by comparative psychologists are doomed to failure. I examine this Asymmetric Dependency Problem in detail and show how the failure to confront its implications leads to viciously circular arguments that cannot be fixed within the current paradigm of research. Next, I offer a seven-step method for isolating the common structural flaw in any given experiment, and work through several examples. Finally, I examine the central claims that my colleagues and I made in Folk Physics through the lens of the Asymmetric Dependency Problem and current research trends. Although the optimism we expressed that experimental approaches could implicate the presence of higher-order thinking in animals requires considerable dampening, the challenges we isolated remain as vital today as they were twenty years ago.

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Mediating potency and fear: action movies’ affect

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Bodies of Walking: Trans-Materializing the Experiences of Racial Harassment

Bodies of Walking: Trans-Materializing the Experiences of Racial Harassment

Moving and Mattering with the Wall-ed Feelings: A Posthuman Movement between Possibilities and Impossibilities of Becomings in Educational Research

Can Comparative Psychology Crack its Toughest Nut?

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