The New “New”: Making a Case for Critical Affect Studies

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Notes

1. jrb223, comment on “What is affect?” on Ask MetaFilter, comment posted September 15, 2006, http://ask.metafilter.com/46567/what-is-affect/.

2. Jennifer Seibel Trainor, “From Identity to Emotion: Frameworks for Understanding, and Teaching Against, Anticritical Sentiments in the Classroom,” JAC 26 (2006): 645.

3. Julie Lindquist, “Class Affects, Classroom Affectations: Working through the Paradoxes of Strategic Empathy,” College English 67 (2004): 187–209; Amy E. Robillard, “We Won't Get Fooled Again: On the Absence of Angry Responses to Plagiarism in Composition Studies,” College English 70 (2007): 10–31; Laura R. Micciche, “More Than a Feeling: Disappointment and WPA Work,” College English 64 (2002): 432–58; Donald Norman, Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things (New York: Basic Books, 2004).

4. Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002), 25. Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995).

5. Lawrence Grossberg, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (New York: Routledge, 1992), 44–45.

6. Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 9.

7. By naming these texts, I am drawing a circle around secondary literature that tends to rely draw on a few central texts dealing with affect. No study of affect is complete without a thorough reading of Deleuze and Guattari, Henri Bergson, or the original theorist of affect, Baruch Spinoza. What I am calling “critical affect studies” is a group of texts that borrow from these primary sources.

8. Joes.45acp, comment on “Crime Surge on Border,” California Political News and Views, comment posted September 9, 2007, http://www.capoliticalnews.com/s/spip.php?breve2664/.

9. Grossberg, We Gotta Get Out, 44.

10. Kathleen Stewart, A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an “Other” America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996), 5.

11. Susan Friend Harding, The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).

12. Nancy Fraser, “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy,” in Habermas and the Public Sphere, ed. Craig Calhoun (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992), 110. Gerard Hauser, Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999), 61 (emphasis in the original).

13. From the Navelgazing Midwife Blog, http://observantmidwife.blogspot.com/2007/10/thighs-lows.html/, February 1, 2008.

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Jenny Edbauer Rice

Jenny Edbauer Rice is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia