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Ellie and Lilly have an ongoing thread about affect, emotion, capitalism, and work. Ellie asked Lilly for works on affect that aren't psychoanalytic. Lilly figured this would make for just the sort of thing this wiki was made for! | Ellie and Lilly have an ongoing thread about affect, emotion, capitalism, and work. Ellie asked Lilly for works on affect that aren't psychoanalytic. Lilly figured this would make for just the sort of thing this wiki was made for! | ||
| − | Illouz - Cold Intimacies: The Makings of Emotional Capitalism (book) | + | Eva Illouz - Cold Intimacies: The Makings of Emotional Capitalism (book) |
Draws on a lot of frankfurt school, Bourdieu, management studies, studies of online dating she has conducted in Israel to develop the concept of emotional capital -- the capacities to manage and present oneself in an emotionally "authentic" way, where authenticity is a subjective state produced through websites where we have to decide on one self to be because it is our public profile, because therapists train us to locate our authentic self, etc. | Draws on a lot of frankfurt school, Bourdieu, management studies, studies of online dating she has conducted in Israel to develop the concept of emotional capital -- the capacities to manage and present oneself in an emotionally "authentic" way, where authenticity is a subjective state produced through websites where we have to decide on one self to be because it is our public profile, because therapists train us to locate our authentic self, etc. | ||
| − | Eitan Wilf - | + | Eitan Wilf - SINCERITY VERSUS SELF-EXPRESSION: MODERN CREATIVE AGENCY AND THE MATERIALITY OF SEMIOTIC FORMS |
| + | http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/426 | ||
Cultural Anthro piece that looks at how self-help books train people to recognize doubt, passion in themselves as a way of creating subjects who can take on personal risk in pursuit of authentically fulfilling market pursuits, | Cultural Anthro piece that looks at how self-help books train people to recognize doubt, passion in themselves as a way of creating subjects who can take on personal risk in pursuit of authentically fulfilling market pursuits, | ||
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| + | William Mazzarella - Affect: What is it Good for? from Routledge's Enchantments of Modernity | ||
| + | http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/docs/mazz_affect.pdf | ||
| + | A critique of Massumi's affect theory, and generally affect theories that seize upon affect as something prelinguistic, biological, essential. Might make more sense read along with Mazzarella's annual review piece Culture, Globalization, Mediation (http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143809) | ||
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| + | Amy Wharton - The Sociology of Emotional Labor | ||
| + | http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-115944 | ||
| + | More broadly, I've been thinking about affect in part as the emotional labor. In design, producing affects in others as part of facilitating cooperation, enthusiasm, collaboration. And more broadly, the affective work of keeping oneself upbeat, enthusiastic, perky, avoiding "burn out" and "going crazy." | ||
Revision as of 01:40, 11 December 2012
Ellie and Lilly have an ongoing thread about affect, emotion, capitalism, and work. Ellie asked Lilly for works on affect that aren't psychoanalytic. Lilly figured this would make for just the sort of thing this wiki was made for!
Eva Illouz - Cold Intimacies: The Makings of Emotional Capitalism (book) Draws on a lot of frankfurt school, Bourdieu, management studies, studies of online dating she has conducted in Israel to develop the concept of emotional capital -- the capacities to manage and present oneself in an emotionally "authentic" way, where authenticity is a subjective state produced through websites where we have to decide on one self to be because it is our public profile, because therapists train us to locate our authentic self, etc.
Eitan Wilf - SINCERITY VERSUS SELF-EXPRESSION: MODERN CREATIVE AGENCY AND THE MATERIALITY OF SEMIOTIC FORMS http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/426 Cultural Anthro piece that looks at how self-help books train people to recognize doubt, passion in themselves as a way of creating subjects who can take on personal risk in pursuit of authentically fulfilling market pursuits,
William Mazzarella - Affect: What is it Good for? from Routledge's Enchantments of Modernity http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/docs/mazz_affect.pdf A critique of Massumi's affect theory, and generally affect theories that seize upon affect as something prelinguistic, biological, essential. Might make more sense read along with Mazzarella's annual review piece Culture, Globalization, Mediation (http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143809)
Amy Wharton - The Sociology of Emotional Labor http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-115944 More broadly, I've been thinking about affect in part as the emotional labor. In design, producing affects in others as part of facilitating cooperation, enthusiasm, collaboration. And more broadly, the affective work of keeping oneself upbeat, enthusiastic, perky, avoiding "burn out" and "going crazy."
