Valery Lyman’s 16-minute film, One of These Mornings, captures the pain, the joy, the happiness, and the excitement embodied in the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. Now, a year and a couple of months after that election, Ben Ehrenreich’s Slate piece on the dramatic failures (already!) of the international, but especially US, response […]
Posts Tagged ‘affect’
one of these (ambiguous & contradictory) mornings
Posted in Politics, tagged affect, Haiti, hope, Obama, Politics on January 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
neuropolitics & environmental communication
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged affect, cognition, Connolly, environmental communication, Lakoff, neuropolitics on January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My article “From Frames to Resonance Machines: The Neuropolitics of Environmental Communication” is coming out in the next issue of Environmental Communication. Here’s the abstract: George Lakoff’s work in cognitive linguistics has prompted a surge in social scientists’ interest in the cognitive and neuropsychological dimensions of political discourse. Bringing cognitive neuroscience into the study of […]
Lakoff’s environmental frames vs. Connolly’s resonance machines
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged affect, Connolly, ecomedia, economy, ecopolitics, ecotheory, framing, Lakoff, neuropolitics on May 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »
In Why Environmental Understanding, or “Framing,” Matters, published today on the Huffington Post (and on AlterNet), liberal framing guru George Lakoff provides a useful critique of a forthcoming EcoAmerica report on the framing of environmental and climate change issues. While his conclusions are perceptive and make the article a valuable read — I’ll get to […]
eyes (faces, limbs) of the world
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged affect, globalism on May 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
BLDGBLOG‘s Geoff Manaugh raises challenging questions about Franco-Tunisian “undercover photographer” and graffiti/poster artist JR‘s exhibition of photos called The Hills Have Eyes. JR’s story is that he found a camera on a Paris subway station platform in the year 2000 and has since gone around photographing suburban ghetto rioters in Paris, impoverished and abused women […]
metadata & musical geography (from album covers to cultural policy)
Posted in Media ecology, Music & soundscape, tagged affect, cultural geography, cultural policy, Deleuze, geography, Iceland, imagination, music, visual culture on April 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
One of the more oblique threads I’ve been pursuing on this blog has to do with what new media are doing to aural and musical information. Music is, of course, much more than information: it is embodied affect (in a Deleuzian sense) that carries, channels, activates, mobilizes (sets into motion), transforms, and disseminates cultural meanings […]
‘After 1968’ & the blessedness of the Buddho-Spinozan
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged affect, Agamben, Buddhism, Deleuze, Dzogchen, Madhyamika, mindfulness, political theory, post-marxism, poststructuralism, Spinoza on April 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There’s a wealth of material in post-marxist and poststructuralist political philosophy to be found at the After 1968 web site, which documents a series of seminars and lectures held in Maastricht over the last few years. You can find texts by Agamben, Deleuze, Badiou, Ranciere, Baudrillard, Negri, Derrida, Nancy, and others there, though it will […]
imagination & contemporary theory
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged affect, cognition, Continental philosophy, Deleuze, enchantment, imagination, Jung, theory, visuality on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is a summary I provided to a grad student who was starting to get into this area. It’s very introductory and far from complete in its coverage, but since there’s so little out there on this topic, I thought it would be useful to post it. It’s also a bit biased towards literature that’s […]