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1 Affect - Affect is a process and mechanism of subject formation (Blackman 2012, xviii). Affect relates to all those processes that are separate from meaning, belief or cognition and that occur at the level of autonomic, pre-conscious bodily reactions, responses and resonances. (Blackman 2012, xi)
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Priyankha Rajagopal
Priyankha Rajagopal is a research scholar at the Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus. After working for two years as an assistant professor, she is currently working in the area of Neurodiversity and Criminality for her doctoral thesis.
Manali Karmakar
Manali Karmakar is an Assistant Professor in English at the Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus. She has earned her PhD from IIT Guwahati and has specialized in the area of Linguistics and Medical Humanities (Literary Studies, Medicine, Biotechnology). Her research interests include English Language Teaching and Materials Development, Literature and Medicine, Posthumanism, and Mental health and Disability studies. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Medical Humanities (Springer), Literature and Medicine (John Hopkins University Press), Medical Humanities (British Medical Journal), Cogent: Arts and Humanities (Taylor and Francis) among other places. At present, she is working as a contributor for book projects such as Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and Medical Humanities (Contracted with Edinburgh University Press)