Public Spheres of Resonance: Constellations of Affect and Language

ISBN-13: 9781138608450 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 230 str.

Anne Fleig; Christian Von Scheve

Opis

To understand the profound changes in the modes of public political debate over the past decade, this volume develops a new conception of public spheres as spaces of resonance emerging from the power of language to affect and to ascribe and instill collective emotion.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Public Spheres of Resonance – Constellations of Affect and Language;  2. It’s the Language, Stupid!;  Part I: Publics, Politics, and Media;  3. Affective Publics: Understanding the Dynamic Formation of Public Articulations Beyond the Public Sphere;  4. Resonant networks: On Affect and Social Media;  5. The Sentimental Contract: Ambivalences of Affective Politics and Publics;  6. Rhythm, gestures, and tones in public performances: Political mobilization and affective communication;  7. Affective Dynamics of Public Discourse on Religious Recognition in Secular Societies;  Part II: Language and Artistic Practice;  8. Put A Spell on You: Poetry, Politics, and Affective Resonance in the Age of the Algorithm;  9. German 'Sprechtheater' and the Transformation of Theatrical Public Spheres;  10. The Alphabet of Feeling Bad: Environmental Installation Arts and Sensory Publics;  11. Affect and Accent: Public Spheres of Dissonance in the Writing of Yoko Tawada;  12. Affect(ive) Assemblages: Literary Worldmaking in Fatma Aydemir’s Ellbogen;  13. Theory’s Affective Scene: Or, What to Do with Language after Affect.