Affect that isn't psychoanalytic

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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!

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,