October 30, 2020
- Language english Pages 241
- Publishing Year 2020
-
ISBNs:
- 978-3-95796-165-5 (print)
- 978-3-95796-166-2 (PDF)
- DOI:
- 10.14619/1655
- License:
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Download:
- COVER (JPG)
Affective Transformations
Politics – Algorithms – Media
The Affective Turn has lost its former innocence and euphoria. Affect Studies and its adjacent disciplines have now to prove that they can cope with the return of the affective real that technology, economy, and politics entail.
Two seemingly contradictory developments serve as starting points for this volume. First, technological innovations such as affective computing, mood tracking, sentiment analysis, and social robotics all share a focus on the recognition and modulation of human affectivity. Affect gets measured, calculated, controlled. Secondly, recent developments in politics, social media usage, and right-wing journalism have contributed to a conspicuous rise of hate speech, cybermobbing, public shaming, “felt truths,” and resentful populisms. In a very specific way, politics as well as power have become affective.
Affect gets mobilized, fomented, unleashed. When the ways we deal with our affectivity get unsettled in such a dramatic fashion, we have to rethink our ethical, aesthetical, political as well as legal regimes of affect organization.
Table of Contents
Affective Transformations: An Introduction
Bernd Bösel
Affect: On the Turn
Paul Stenner
Algorithm Awareness: Towards a Philosophy of Artifactuality
Gabriele Gramelsberger
Affective Media Regulation: Or, How to Counter the Blackboxing of Emotional Life
Bernd Bösel
From Social Data to Body Data to Psy Data: Tap, Tap, Tap
Oliver Leistert
Affective Milieus: Intensive Couplings, Technical Sentience, and a Nonconscious In-between
Marie-Luise Angerer
Synhaptic Sensibility
Pierre Cassou-Noguès
Encoding Proximity: Intuition in Human-Robot Collaborations
Dawid Kasprowicz
Autonomous Dwelling: Smart Homes and Care-IT
Irina Kaldrack
Happy, Happy, Sad, Sad: Do You Feel Me? Constellations of Desires in Affective Technologies
Serjoscha Wiemer
Mediated Humanitarian Affect
Andrew A. G. Ross
Affection and Dividuation
Michaela Ott
Attuning to What? The Uncanny Revival of the Aestheticization of Politics
Mathias Fuchs
Witnessing the Dismantlement of a Proven Structure of Belief:
The Challenge of Populism and Alternative Facts to Liberal Democracy
Jean Clam
Alien Thinking: On the Return of the Sublime as an Affective Medium
Markus Rautzenberg
Authors
The Editors
