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Posts Tagged ‘affective politics’

The feeling of the world

Posted in Cultural politics, tagged , , , , , , on January 18, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a working thesis on the present global moment: 1. For many people around the world, life has always been precarious. But for a certain class — the global middle class (and up) — the world had felt more or less secure and comfortable, as long as one knew how to navigate it: play by […]

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Generalized Floating Dread Event (GFDE)

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 30, 2020 | 2 Comments »

Rather like the Airborne Toxic Event in Don Delillo’s 1980s novel White Noise, these days seem, to many of us, suffused with a kind of Generalized Floating Dread. I’ve picked this sense up from students, from colleagues, from friends and neighbors. It is as if there is a cloud of dark matter around us, whose […]

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The secret ballot “id”: affect & electoral politics

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 23, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

Last night’s presidential debate was, in many ways, superfluous: if a U.S. citizen had not already made up their mind who they will vote for (or not already voted), it’s because they haven’t been paying attention. But there is one factor pollsters and predictors of every stripe have not gotten good at accounting for, which […]

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