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Affective Politics & the Imagination of Everyday Resistance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently, \u201caffect\u201d has been a key concept for research in politics, aesthetics, marketing, neuroscience, and sociology. This course seeks to draw together some of the more innovative work within this \u201caffective turn,\u201d focusing on the political composition of subjectivities, especially via cultural practices. \u00a0After a survey of some conceptual foundations of affectivity, we explore its relation to group-formation, labor, technology, value, passions (fear, panic, trauma, joy, love), actions, and creativity. The course will feature guest speakers engaged in affective politics and involve group discussions on the affective nature of practices participants are involved in.<\/p>\n

Bluestockings \u2022 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington, NYC \u2022
\n$35 \u2013 55 \u2013 75 sliding scale
\nWednesdays 4\u2013 6 PM from July 15th \u2013 August 26th, 2009
\nInstructors: Jack Z. Bratich & Stevphen Shukaitis<\/p>\n

::Readings::<\/strong>
\nReadings are divided into core and supplementary readings. The core readings (noted with a star *, approximately 50 pages) will be used to form the basis of discussion. Please make sure that you have read the core readings before the meeting for that week Supplementary readings are materials arguments will be drawn from and would be useful for pursuing particular topics further but are not necessary to read before discussion. Reading core materials is highly encouraged and will greatly aid in having engaging and interesting discussions.<\/p>\n

Week 1: Intro: Affective Foundations & Subjectivity<\/strong>
\n* Emma Dowling, Rodrigo Nunes and Ben Trott (2007) \u201cImmaterial and Affective Labor: Explored,\u201d ephemera: theory & politics in organization Volume 7 Number 1: 1-7.
\n*Free Association (2006) \u201cWhat is a life?\u201d Available at www.nadir.org.uk\/whatisalife.html.
\n*Seigworth, Gregory and Melissa Gregg (forthcoming) \u2018An Inventory of Shimmers\u2019: Affect, for Now.
\nMassumi, Brian (2002) \u201cAutonomy of Affect,\u201d Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect Sensation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
\nClough, Patricia Ticineto with Jean Halley, Eds. (2007) \u201cIntroduction,\u201d The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
\nBrennan, Teresa (2004) \u201cIntroduction\u201d Transmission of Affect. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
\nSpinoza, Baruch (1677) \u201cOf Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Week 2: Labor & Value<\/strong>
\n*Affective capitalism: http:\/\/p2pfoundation.net\/Affective_Capitalism
\n*Ahmed, Sara (2004) \u201cAffective Economies\u201d Social Text 22: 2
\n*Negri, Antonio (1999) \u201cValue and Affect,\u201d boundary 2 Volume 26 Number 2: 77-88.
\nHardt, Michael (1999) \u201cAffective Labor,\u201d boundary 2 26:2: 89-100.
\nMezzadra, Sandro. \u201cTaking Care: Migration and the Political Economy of Affective Labor.\u201d
\nPrada, Juan Martin. \u201cAffective Link. Policies of affectivity, aesthetics of biopower.\u201d
\nPrada, Juan Martin. \u201cEconomies of Affectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Week 3: Affect & Technology<\/strong>
\n*Pybus, Jennifer. \u201cAffect and Subjectivity: A case study of Neopets.\u201d
\n*Berardi, Franco \u201cBifo\u201d (2009) \u201cInfo-labor and precarization,\u201d Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of post-alpha generation. London\/New York: Minor Compositions: 30-55.
\n*Arvidsson, Adam (2006). \u201cQuality Singles: internet dating and the work of fantasy,\u201d New Media and Society 8:4.
\nGuattari, F\u00e9lix. \u201cCinema of Desire,\u201d Soft Subversions. New York: Semiotext(e)
\nClough, Patricia Ticineto (2001) Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology. Minneapolis, MI: University of Minnesota Press.<\/p>\n

Week 4: Affect & Sad Passions<\/strong>
\n*Brown, Wendy (1999) \u201cResisting Left Melancholy\u201d boundary 2 26:3.
\n*Marazzi, Christian. \u201cWho Killed God Pan?\u201d ephemera: theory & politics in organization Volume 4 Number 3: 181-186.
\n*Feel Tank Chicago: http:\/\/feeltankchicago.net
\n*Berardi, Franco \u201cBifo\u201d (2008) F\u00e9lix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography. Trans. Giuseppina Mecchia. New York: Palgrave.
\nMassumi, Brian (2005) \u201cFear (The Spectrum Said).\u201d Positions 13:1.
\nDalla Costa, Maria (2002) \u201cDoor to the Garden.\u201d
\nBerardi, Franco \u201cBifo\u201d (2009) \u201cDark Desires,\u201d Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of post-alpha generation. London\/New York: Minor Compositions: 30-55.<\/p>\n

Week 5: Affect & Joyful Passions<\/strong>
\n*Hardt, Michael (1993) \u201cSpinozian Practice: Affirmation and Joy,\u201d Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press.
\n*Shukaitis, Stevphen \u00a0(2007) \u201cAffective Composition and Aesthetics: On Dissolving the Audience and Facilitating the Mob,\u201d Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.
\n*Curious George Brigade (2003) \u201cBeyond Duty and Joy,\u201d Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs. New York: CrimethInc Ex-Workers Collective: 33-40.
\nWeinstone, Ann (2004) Avatar Bodies: A Tantra for Posthumanism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
\nBerardi, Franco \u201cBifo\u201d (2009) \u201c77: The Year of Premonition,\u201d Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of post-alpha generation. London\/New York: Minor Compositions: 30-55.<\/p>\n

Week 6: \u00a0Affect, Creativity & Action<\/strong>
\n*Brennan, Teresa (2004) \u201cTransmission in Groups\u201d Transmission of Affect. Ithaca: Cornell University.
\n*Precarias a la Deriva (2006) \u201cA Very Careful Strike \u2013 Four Hypotheses,\u201d the commoner Number 11: 33-45.
\n*Lohmann, Peter and Steyaert, Chris (2006) \u201cIn the mean time: Vitalism, Affects, and Metamorphosis in Organizational Change,\u201d Deleuze and the Social. Eds. Martin Fuglsang and Bent Meier Sorenson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
\nGrindon, Gavin (2007) \u201cThe Breath of the Possible,\u201d Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations \/\/ Collective Theorization. Ed. Stevphen Shukaitis and David Graeber with Erika Biddle. Oakland, CA: AK Press: 94-107.<\/p>\n

Week 7: Affective Resistance in the Open<\/strong>
\n*Bratich, Jack. “Affective Convergence in Reality Television: A Case Study in Divergence Culture ”
\n*Genosko, Gary. \u201cTransversality,\u201d F\u00e9lix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction. London: Continuum Press.
\nFoucault, Michel (1997) \u201cWhat is Revolution?\u201d The Politics of Truth. New York Semiotext(e).
\nBratich, Jack (2009) \u201cSubjectivity Rosa: Undercurrent Affairs,\u201d Fifth Estate Volume 44 Number 1.
\nAgamben, Giorgio (2004) The Open: Man and Animal. Stanford: Stanford University Press.<\/p>\n

Additional readings:
\n\u201cImmaterial and Affective Labor: Explored,\u201d ephemera: theory & politics in organization Volume 7 Number 1.
\nAbel, Marco (2009) Violent Affect: Literature, Cinema and Critique After Representation. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
\nAhmed, Sara (2004) The Cultural Politics of Emotion. New York: Routledge.
\nBerlant, L., Najafi, S., & Serlin, D. (2008). \u201cThe Broken Circuit: an Interview with Lauren Berlant,\u201d Cabinet Magazine Issue 31: Shame, 85.
\nBennett, Jill (2005) Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
\nBest, Susan (2007) \u201cRethinking Visual Pleasure, Aesthetics and Affect,\u201d Theory & Psychology Vol. 17(4): 505\u2013514.
\nBlackman, Lisa. (2008) \u201cAffect, Relationality and the `Problem of Personality’,\u201d Theory, Culture & Society. Vol. 25 (1): 23\u201347.
\nBratich, Jack Z. (2008) Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture. Binghamton: SUNY Press.
\nBrook, Brook (2009) \u201cThe Alienated Heart: Hochschild\u2019s \u2018emotional labor\u2019 thesis and the anticapitalist politics of alienation,\u201d Capital & Class 98: 7-31.
\nCote, Mark & Jennifer Pybus (2007) \u201cLearning to Immaterial Labor 2.0: Myspace & Social Networks,\u201d ephemera: theory & politics in organization Volume 7 Number 1.
\nDeleuze, Gilles. Lecture Transcripts on Spinoza\u2019s Concept of Affect. www.gold.ac.uk\/media\/deleuze_spinoza_affect-1.pdf
\nDowling, Emma (2007) \u201cProducing the Dining Experience: Measure, Subjectivity and the Affective Worker,\u201d ephemera: theory & politics in organization Volume 7 Number 1.
\nDuncombe, Stephen (2007) Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy. New York: New Press.
\nFederici, Silvia (2004) Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia.
\nFederici, Silvia (2008) \u201cPrecarious Labor: A Feminist Viewpoint,\u201d In The Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement, and Movement. Los Angeles: Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press. Available at www.inthemiddleofawhirlwind.info.
\nGibbs, Anna (2002) \u201cDisaffected,\u201d Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. 16: 3.
\nGorton, Kristyn (2007) \u201cTheorizing emotion and affect: Feminist engagements,\u201d Feminist Theory Vol. 8(3): 333\u2013348.
\nGorton, Kristyn (2007a) Psychoanalysis and the Portrayal of Desire in Twentieth-Century Fiction: A Feminist Critique. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen.
\nGregg, Melissa (2006) Cultural Studies\u2019 Affective Voices. New York: Palgrave.
\nGrossberg, Lawrence (1992) \u201cIdeology and Affective Epidemics,\u201d We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture. London: Routledge.
\nGuattari, F\u00e9lix (1996) \u201cRitornellos and Existential Affects,\u201d The Guattari Reader. London: Blackwell: 158-171.
\nHansen, Mark (2004) \u201cThe Affect-Body,\u201d New philosophy for New Media. Cambridge: MIT.
\nHansen, Mark (2004) \u201cThe Time of Affect, or Bearing Witness to Life,\u201d Critical Inquiry 30: 584-626.
\nHochschild, Arlie (1983) The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press.
\nHold, Christian, Ed. (2009) Emotional Cartography: Technologies of the Self. www.emotionalcartography.net
\nIedema, Rick, Carl Rhodes and Hermine Scheeres. (2006) \u201cSurveillance, Resistance, Observance: Exploring the Teleo-affective Volatility of Workplace Interaction,\u201d Organization Studies.
\nJarrett, Kylie (2003) \u201cLabor of Love: An archaeology of affect as power in e-commerce,\u201d Journal of Sociology 39:4, 2003.
\nKatsiaficas, George (2001) The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life. New Jersey: Humanities Press.
\nKoivunen, Anu & Susanna Paasonen, Eds. (2000) Conference proceedings for \u201cAffective encounters: rethinking embodiment in feminist media studies.\u201d University of Turku, Series A, N:o 49. www.utu.fi\/hum\/mediatutkimus\/affective\/proceedings.pdf
\nM\/C Journal issue on affect (2005) Volume 8 Issue 6. journal.media-culture.org.au\/0512.
\nNegri, Antonio (1999) Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State. Trans. Maurizio Boscagli. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
\nNegri, Antonio (2003) \u201cAlma Venus: Love,\u201d Time for Revolution. Trans. Matteo Mandarini. London: Continuum.
\nPanksepp, Jaak (1998) Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions. New York: Oxford University Press
\nProtevi, John (2009) Draft article for Theory & Event special issue on \u201cDeleuze and War.\u201d http:\/\/www.protevi.com\/john\/research.html
\nPruchnic, Jeff (2008) \u201cThe Invisible Gland: Affect and Political Economy,\u201d Criticism Volume 50, Number 1: 160-175.
\nRedding, Paul (1999) The Logic of Affect. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
\nStoler, Ann Laura. \u201cAffective States\u201d Companion to the Anthropology of Politics. Ed. David Nugent and Joan Vincent. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
\nTeam Colors Collective (2009) \u201cTo Show the Fire and the Tenderness.\u201d
\nTerranova, Tiziana (2004) \u201cCommunication Biopower,\u201d Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age. London: Pluto Press.
\nThoburn, Nicholas (2007) \u201cPatterns of Production: Cultural Studies after Hegemony,\u201d Theory, Culture & Society. Vol. 24(3): 79\u201394.
\nThrift, Nigel (2004) \u201cIntensities of feeling: towards a spatial politics of affect,\u201d Geografiska Annaler, Series B, 86, 57-78.
\nThrift, Nigel (2007) Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect. London: Routledge
\nTitchener, E.B. (1895) \u201cAffective Memory,\u201d Philosophical Review. Volume 4 Number 1: 65-76.
\nToscano, Alberto (2007) \u201cVital Strategies: Maurizio Lazzarato and the Metaphysics of Contemporary Capitalism,\u201d Theory, Culture & Society.Vol. 24(6): 71\u201391.
\nVaneigem, Raoul (1994 [1967]) Revolution of Everyday Life. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. London: Rebel Press.
\nVaneigem, Raoul (1994) The Movement of the Free Spirit. Trans. Randall Cherry and Ian Patterson. New York: Zone Books.
\nVaneigem, Raoul (n.d.) Collection of Desires. Richmond, VA: Paper Street.
\nWissinger, Elizabeth (2007) \u201cModelling a Way of Life: Immaterial and Affective Labour in the Fashion Modelling Industry,\u201d ephemera. volume 7(1): 250-269, www.ephemeraweb.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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