The Affective Turn

Patricia Ticineto Clough, ed.

Linking cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores the role of affect in the theorization of the social.

Acknowledgments viiForeword: What Affects Are Good For / Michael Hardt ixIntroduction / Patricia Ticineto Clough 1The Parched Tongue / Hosu Kim 34Techno-Cinema: Image Matters in the Affective Unfoldings of Analog Cinema and New Media / Jamie “Skye” Bianco 47Slowness: Notes toward an Economy of Differencial Rates of Being / Karen Wendy Gilbert 77Myocellular Transduction: When My Cells Trained My Body-Mind / Deborah Gambs 106Women’s Work and the Ambivalent Gift of Entropy / David Staples 119Voices from the Teum: Synesthetic Trauma and the Ghosts of the Korean Diaspora / Grace M. Cho 151In Calcutta, Sex Workers Organize / Melissa Ditmor 170More Than a Job: Meaning, Affect, and Training Health Care Workers / Ariel Ducey 187Haunting Orpheus: Problems of Space and Time in the Desert / Jonathan R. Wynn 209Always on Display: Affective Production in the Modeling Industry / Elizabeth Wissinger 231The Wire / Jean Halley 261Losses and Returns: The Soldier in Trauma / Greg Goldberg and Craig Willse 264Bibliography 287Contributors 303Index 305