Tag: Affect

Free Download Helene Strauss, Sarah Olutola, Jessie Forsyth, "Contemporary African Mediations of Affect and Access"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0367142376, 1138636398 | EPUB | pages: 168 | 0.9 mb
Across Africa, new collectivities are shifting the terms within which access to economic opportunity, social belonging, and political agency have historically been understood. Recent years have seen powerful waves of civic mobilization sweep across the continent. Less prominent articulations of contemporary political desire have also been percolating through the diffuse experiences of the African everyday. As differential access to global capitalism and its promises folds into modes of subjection―and escape―that are hard to predict, those who exercise power find ever more ways of guarding the borders and memberships of privileged groups. This book turns to the critically entangled terms of affect and access as a basis for exploring emergent orientations in the field of African cultural theorizing. It pays especial attention to scholarship engaging with the multifaceted coordinates of political and social participation, where complex assemblages of affective attachment, exchange, and realignment work in concert with demands for socio-political and economic forms of access. This book was originally published as a special issue of Safundi.

Free Download Cinema of/for the Anthropocene: Affect, Ecology, and More-Than-Human Kinship
by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Andrea Ruthven
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032746351 | 215 Pages | True PDF | 11.2 MB

Free Download David M. Bell, "Rethinking Utopia: Place, Power, Affect"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138368245, 1138891339 | EPUB | pages: 188 | 0.7 mb
Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in – or rather because of – the condition of ‘post-utopianism’ that supposedly permeates them. In Rethinking Utopia David M. Bell offers a diagnosis of the present through the lens of utopia and then, by rethinking the concept through engagement with utopian studies, a variety of ‘radical’ theories and the need for decolonizing praxis, shows how utopianism might work within, against and beyond that which exists in order to provide us with hope for a better future.

Free Download Anna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability"
English | ISBN: 1531503225 | 2023 | 240 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer "embargoed" from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature’s newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the world literary system?

Free Download Medieval Spaces in Comics: Affect and Ideology
by Elizabeth Allyn Woock
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031664922 | 271 Pages | True PDF | 31 MB

Free Download Irune Gabiola, "Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres"
English | ISBN: 1433159090 | 2020 | 184 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed by social movements such as COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras). Despite a harsh legacy of colonialism, indigenous communities continue suffering from territorial displacements, dispossession, and human rights abuses due to extractivist projects that are violently destroying their land and, therefore, the environment. In particular, the Lenca communities in Honduras have been negatively affected by Western ideas of "progress" and "development" that have historically eliminated ancestral knowledges and indigenous ecological cosmologies while reinforcing Eurocentrism. Nevertheless, by reflecting on and articulating strategies for resisting neoliberalism, COPINH and its cofounder Berta Cáceres’ commitment to environmental activism, ecofeminism, and intersectional struggles has contributed affectively and effectively to the production of democratic encounters in pursuit of social justice. In homage to Berta, who was brutally assassinated for her activism in 2016, this book takes the reader on an affective journey departing from the violent affects experienced by the Lencas due to colonial disruption, contemporary industrialization, and criminalization, towards COPINH’s political and social intervention fueled by outrage, resistance, transnational solidarity, care, mourning, and hope. In this way, subaltern actors nurture the power to―in line with Brian Massumi’s interpretation of affect―transform necropolitics into natality with the aim of creating a fairer and better world.

Free Download Walt Hickey, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything"
English | ASIN: B0D849BD1H | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:19:00 | 256 MB
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and data expert Walt Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, how we see ourselves, and how nations gain power.
Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular forms of entertainment can have a direct physical effect on us, a measurable impact on society, geopolitics, the economy, and even the future itself? In You Are What You Watch, Walter Hickey-Pulitzer Prize winner and former chief culture writer at acclaimed data site FiveThirtyEight.com-proves how exactly how what we watch (and read and listen to) has a far greater effect on us and the world at large than we imagine.

Free Download Oliver Haslam, "Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020"
English | ASIN : B0CS4N3BKJ | 2024 | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US postmodernity.

Free Download Brian Massumi, "Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation "
English | ISBN: 0822328976 | 2002 | 336 pages | EPUB | 409 KB
Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence-movement, affect, and sensation-in favor of concepts derived from linguistic theory. In Parables for the Virtual Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models.

Free Download Alex Simpson, "Gendering Place and Affect: Attachment, Disruption and Belonging"
English | ISBN: 1529232759 | 2024 | 262 pages | PDF | 110 MB
Drawing on affect theory and the key themes of attachment, disruption and belonging, this book examines the ways in which our placed surroundings – whether urban design, border management or organisations – shape and form experiences of gender.