Digital cultures and the politics of emotion: feelings, affect and technological change
Fifteen thought-provoking essays engage in an innovative dialogue between cultural studies of affect, feelings and emotions, and digital cultures, new media and technology. The volume provides a fascinatingdialogue that cuts across disciplines, media platforms and geographic and linguistic boundaries. ATHINA KARATZOGIANNI Lecturer in Media, Culture and Society at the University of Hull, UK. She is the author of 'The Politics of Cyberconfict '(2006), 'Power, Conflict and Resistance' with Andrew Robinson (2010), and editor of 'Cyber Conflict and Global Politics' (2009). Athina has written extensively on various incidents of cyberconflict, media movements and radical politics. She iscurrently working toward her research monograph 'The Real, the Virtual and Imaginary State.'. ADI KUNTSMAN Research Fellow at the University of Manchester,UK. Her research interests include affect and emotions; migration, diaspora and nationalism; queer politics; war, violence and coloniality; new media and humanitarianism; and digital cultures. She is the author of 'Figurations of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, Migranthood and Nationalism in Cyberspace and Beyond' (2009) and the co-editor of 'Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality' (with Esperanza Miyake, 2008). INDICE: Notes on Contributors - Preface - Introduction: Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures; 'A.Kuntsman - 'PART I: AFFECT IN THE AGE OF THE DIGITAL -War By Other Means: What Difference Does the Graphic(s) Make?; 'P.Ticineto Clough - 'Nanoarchitectures: The Synthetic Design of Extensions and Thoughts; 'L.Parisi - 'WikiLeaks Affects: Ideology, Conflict and the Revolutionary Virtual; 'A.Karatzogianni - 'PART II: SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS OF DIGITAL CULTURES - Affect, Fantasy and Digital Cultures; 'D.Ferreday - 'Videogames and the Digital Sublime; 'E.Shinkle - 'Digital Affect, Clubbing and Club Drug Cultures: Reflection, Anticipation, Counter-Reaction; 'K.Moore - 'Touching Tales: Emotion in Digital Object Memories; 'K.Leder' &' A.Karpovich - 'PART III: VIRTUAL INTIMACIES- White Collar Intimacy; 'M.Gregg - 'DIY Therapy: Exploring Affective Self-representations in Trans Video Blogs on YouTube;' T.Raun - 'Virtually Yours: Reflecting on the Place of Mobile Phones in Romantic Relationships; 'M.Sirisena -'PART IV: FEELINGS, TECHNOLOGIES, POLITICS - Symptomologies of the State: Cuba's 'Email War' and the Paranoid Public Sphere; 'L.Humphreys - 'The Seducer's Net: Internet, Politics and Seduction; 'J.Rone - 'Digital Aesthetics and Affective Politics: Isaac Julien's Audio-Visual Installations; 'M.Quadraro - 'Epilogue: The Futures of the Affective Digital; 'A.Karatzogianni - 'Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-29658-9
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 07/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés