Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky; Frank, Adam

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“…12 If discipline moves the body through affect it becomes easy to understand how emotions of security and insecurity can emerge non-consciously in social interactions, even in subjects who would not designate themselves as anxious. Affect theory provides a way to enhance our understanding of disciplinary power, but also a way to move beyond Foucault because it allows us to lift off some parts of the very heavy conceptual apparatus that always risk becoming a life of its own in Foucaultinspired work (see again Kosofsky Sedgwick and Frank, 1995).…”

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The body politics of the urban age: reflections on surveillance and affect

Svenonius

2018

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The article theorizes surveillance and affect in the context of urban security policy. Surveillance, as commonly understood, provides the means to "know" a person or a population, and to a certain extent to control or manage her/him/it. Hence, surveillance and knowledge are intimately tied together. New modes of surveillance are, therefore, also contingent upon new ways of knowing. This article discusses surveillance and affect in urban politics and let these concepts communicate with empirical research on urban security. The starting point is empirical research in three European cities on changes in local level security policy between 2000 and 2010. In all three cases, significant changes in the governance networks' approaches about security were observed. These changes coincided with new developments in the use of surveillance technologies to increase feelings of security. In this process "performative" surveillance became a central aspect of urban security policy, with particular focus on affects related to fear of crime, old age, and gender. The article theorizes the relationship between security, surveillance, and affect. The argument put forward is that new security policies were instances of the production of a discourse in which the precognitive, instinctual affects were increasingly targeted. The article shows how proponents of the new type of security governance articulate policy goals focusing on fear, threat, and surveillance. It contributes to a small body of literature on urban security and emotions by showing how cultural differences play out when similar policy goals that target citizens on the level of pre-cognitive affects are implemented.

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The body politics of the urban age: reflections on surveillance and affect

Svenonius

2018

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“…Taking a less psychically grounded and subject-focused view of affect (Blackman, 2008a), these perspectives see it as something of a visceral force, or a vector, that operates between bodies (Sedgwick and Frank, 1995). Affects are autonomous from the subject, somewhat automatic and necessarily reflexive (Blackman, 2008a: 16;Massumi, 1996;.…”

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Thinking critically about affect in organization studies: Why it matters

2017

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. AbstractAffect holds the promise of destabilizing and unsettling us, as organizational subjects, into new states of being. It can shed light on many aspects of work and organization, with implications both within and beyond organization studies. Affect theory holds the potential to generate exciting new insights for the study of organizations, theoretically, methodologically and politically. This Special Issue seeks to explore these potential trajectories. We are pleased to present five contributions that develop such ideas, drawing on a wide variety of approaches, and invoking new perspectives on the organizations we study and inhabit. As this Special Issue demonstrates, the world of work offers an exciting landscape for studying the 'pulsing refrains of affect' that accompany our lived experiences.

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“…Social scientists have drawn upon various traditions to work up this sharp distinction, notably a) psychoanalysis (e.g. Day Sclater et al, 2009), b) the work of a number of psychologists and neuroscientists, especially Tomkins (Sedgwick and Frank, 1995) and Damasio (Cromby, 2007), and c) the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari 13 (Massumi, 2002).…”

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“…Deleuzian philosopher Brian Massumi (2002, p. 4), for instance, straightforwardly admits that his project began as an attempt to "part company with the linguistic model at the basis of the most widespread concepts of coding". Sedgwick and Frank (1995) begin their now classic homage to Silvan Tomkins' theory of affect with a hostile attack on the limitations of critical discursive approaches, and Craib's (1997) clarion call for the rebirth of an affect-oriented psychoanalytical sociology was entitled "Social Constructionism as a social psychosis", no less. Patricia Clough's quixotic efforts to synthesize some of these influences are consistently structured by a gesture of contrasting 'good' bodily affect with 'bad' consciously mindful discourse, as when she boasts of "toppling… semiotic chains of signification and identity and linguistic-based structures of meaning making' from their 'privileged position" (2010, p. 223).…”

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Liminality and affectivity: The case of deceased organ donation

Stenner

Moreno-Gabriel

2013

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Building on ethnographic work on deceased organ donation in Spain, this paper supplements the concept of affectivity at the core of the emerging field of affect studies with a concept of liminality. The paper begins by focussing on relevant scenes in Pedro Almodóvar's 1999 film "All about my mother", using these as a spring-board to discuss the recent 'turn to affect' amongst social scientists and humanities scholars. This 'turn' is characterized in relation to a move towards the 'event' side of a 'structure / event' polarity. A case is made for a process approach which better integrates event and structure, and better links ontological and empirical dimensions of research. To these ends, a distinction is drawn between an ontological account of liminality (informed by the process philosophy A.N. Whitehead) and an anthropological account (informed by the process anthropology of V. Turner and A. Szakolczai), both of which give a decisive role to affect or 'feeling' qua liminal transition at the joints and other interstices of structural order. The paper ends with a return to ethnographic observations relevant to the characterisation of the deceased organ donation dispositif as a novel form of liminal affective technology.

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Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins

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The body politics of the urban age: reflections on surveillance and affect

The body politics of the urban age: reflections on surveillance and affect

Thinking critically about affect in organization studies: Why it matters

Liminality and affectivity: The case of deceased organ donation

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