Affect theory

September 10: Introducing Affect Theory

 

Grossberg, Lawrence. "Ch. 2: Mapping popular culture." We gotta get ou of this place: popular conservatism and postmodern culture. 1992. 69-87.

Brian Massumi, “The Autonomy of Affect,” Parables for the Virtual (23-45, plus notes)

Ngai, Sianne. "Introduction." Ugly feelings. 2005. 1-37.

Tuesday, September 18, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Place TBA: Special Session with Lauren Berlant ( University of Chicago)

Berlant, Lauren. "Cruel optimism." Differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies 17.3 (2006).
Berlant, Lauren. "Love, a queer feeling." Homosexuality psychoanalysis. Dean, Tim; Lane, Christopher (eds). U of Chicago Press, 2001. 432-451.

September 24: Affect and Cognition

Boehner, Kirsten, [et.al.]. "Affect: from information to interaction." Proceedings of the 4th decennial conference on Critical computing: between sense and sensibility. ACM Press, 2005. 59-68.

Antonio Damassio,“Introduction” and “Emotions and Feelings,” Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (xi-xix, 127-64, 269-70, 282-5)

Dror, Otniel E.. "Counting the affects: discoursing in numbers." Social Research 68.2 (Summer 2001): 357-378.

Recommended:

Teresa Brennan, “The New Paradigm,” The Transmission of Affect (74-96, 182-88)

Blakeslee, Sandra. "Scientists Induce Out-of-Body Sensation." New York Times . (August 23, 2007): online.

September 28-29: Thinking Affect: Memory, Language, and Cognition (Graduate Student Conference)

October 15: Shame, Fear, and the Politics of Affect

Ahmed, Sarah. "Ch. 5: Shame Before Others." The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Routledge, 2004. 101-121.

Limon, John. "The Shame of Abu Ghraib." Critical Inquiry 33.3 (2007): 543-572.

Sedgewick, Eve. "Ch. 3: Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins." Touching Feelings.Duke University Press, 2003. 94-121.

Recommended:

Leys, Ruth. "Ch. 4: Shame Now." From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After. Princeton University Press, 2007. 123-155.

Tomkins, Silvan. "Ch. 1: What Are Affects?." Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tompkins Reader.Sedgewick, Eve and Adam Frank (eds.). Duke University Press, 1995. 33-74. .

November 12: Historicizing Affect

Thrailkill, Jane F.. "Introduction." Affecting Fictions: Mind, body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism. Harvard University Press, 2007. 1-9.

Thrailkill, Jane F.. "Ch. 1: The Zest, the Tingle, the Excitement of Reality." Affecting Fictions: Mind, body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism. Harvard University Press, 2007. 18-53.

Reddy, William. "Sentimentalism and Its Erasure: The Role of Emotions oin the Era of the French Revolution." Journal of Modern History 72.1 (2000: March): 109-152.

Airlie, Stuart. "The History of Emotions and Emotional History." Early Medieval Europe 10. (2001): 243-250.

Garrison, Mary. "The Study of Emotions in Early Eedieval History: Some Starting Points." Early Medieval Europe 10. (2001): 243-250.

Recommended:

Rowenwein, Barbara H.. "Worrying about Emotions in History." American Historical Review 107.3 (2002: June): 821-845.

Coviello, Peter. "Agonizing Affection: Affect and Nation in Early America." Early American Literature37.3 (2002): 439-468.

Coviello, Peter. "Intimacy and Affliction: DuBois, Race, and Psychoanalysis." MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 64.1 (March 2003): 1-32.