Thinking the post-human: Literature, affect and the politics of style

Spinks, Lee

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“…The ontological equation between affect and excess around the idea of the virtualâ ctual has subsequently functioned as the a priori foundation, or ground, that guarantees the postrationalist political practices mentioned above (see, for example, Spinks, 2001).…”

Section: Excess and Affectmentioning

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“…Thinking of the excess of being as a pure gift enables an attunement to the movement of affect as a translocal process that potentializes difference within space^time by making real but not actual``a population or swarm of potential ways of affecting or being affected that follows along as we move through life'' (Massumi, 2002b, page 214). The ontological equation between affect and excess around the idea of the virtualâ ctual has subsequently functioned as the a priori foundation, or ground, that guarantees the postrationalist political practices mentioned above (see, for example, Spinks, 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Becoming and Being Hopeful: Towards a Theory of Affect

2006

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In this paper I describe how hope takes place, in order to outline an explicit theory of the more-than-rational or less-than rational in the context of the recent attunement to issues of the affectual and emotional in social and cultural geography. In the first part of the paper I outline an expansion of the more-than-rational or less-than-rational into three modalities: affect, feeling, and emotion. From this basis I question an assumption in the literature on affect that the emergence and movement of affect enable the multiplication of forms of life because they takes place ‘in excess’. In the second part of the paper I exemplify an alternative, more melancholy account through a description of the emergence of hope and hopefulness in two cases in which recorded music is used by individuals to ‘feel better’. Emergent from disruptions in various forms of diminishment, hopefulness moves bodies into contact with an ‘outside’. Becoming and being hopeful raise a set of issues for a theory of affect because of, rather than despite, the sense of tragedy that is intimate with how hope heralds the affective and emotive as always ‘not-yet become’. The conclusion, therefore, draws the two parts of the paper together by reflecting on the implications of thinking from hope for both a theory of affect and an affective cultural politics.

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Section: Excess and Affectmentioning

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Section: Excess and Affectmentioning

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Becoming and Being Hopeful: Towards a Theory of Affect

2006

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“…As Deaville's previous research has established, news music and sound tap into those affective predispositions that are exploited by the media (Deaville, 2006 , 2012 , 2019 ). The global news coverage of the pandemic cannot escape the meanings assigned to its soundtracks, which have been produced and consumed within a politics of affect, of “pre-subjective forces and intensities” (Spinks, 2001 , 24)—they have corresponded to culturally determined and politically driven biases (Demirtaş-Madran, 2020 ).…”

Section: The Sounds Of Pandemic Newsmentioning

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Latent Cultural Bias in Soundtracks of Western News Coverage From Early COVID-19 Epicenters

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Lemire²

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…In Homo Sacer (1998), Agamben tells a story of the indifferentiability of relationships: between law and life (Kieslow, 2005) and between 'humans' and 'politics' (Spinks, 2001). His ambition is to reveal the true and original nature of the political realm through a three-faceted account of the politics of sovereignty in the West (Edkins, 2000;Hussain and Ptacek, 2000;): literary-historical (Part 1), mythical (Part 2) and 'one as brutal as possible' (Part 3) (Kieslow, 2005).…”

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Giorgio agamben and the spatialities of the camp: an introduction

2006

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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The Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben's conclusion that the camp has replaced the city as the biopolitical paradigm of the West is as difficult to digest as it is easy to see how it responds to contemporary political tendencies in the world today. In this introduction to this theme issue on Giorgio Agamben and the spatialities of the camp, a detailed exposition, emulating the structure of Agamben's seminal book Homo Sacer, is conducted, tracing the genealogies of Agamben's ideas and commenting on his swiftly enhanced importance in the social sciences and humanities. The introduction concludes by outlining some possible research fields in human geogrphy where much insight could be gained if Agamben's work is given more detailed consideration.

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Thinking the post-human: Literature, affect and the politics of style

Cited by 23 publications

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Becoming and Being Hopeful: Towards a Theory of Affect

Becoming and Being Hopeful: Towards a Theory of Affect

Latent Cultural Bias in Soundtracks of Western News Coverage From Early COVID-19 Epicenters

Giorgio agamben and the spatialities of the camp: an introduction

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