The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................ix
Foreword: What Affects Are Good For MICHAEL HARDT....................1
Introduction PATRICIA TICINETO CLOUGH....................34
The Parched Tongue HOSU KIM....................47
Techno-Cinema: Image Matters in the Affective Unfoldings of Analog Cinema and New Media JAMIE "SKYE" BIANCO....................77
Slowness: Notes toward an Economy of Différancial Rates of Being KAREN WENDY GILBERT....................106
Myocellular Transduction: When My Cells Trained My Body-Mind DEBORAH GAMBS....................119
Women's Work and the Ambivalent Gift of Entropy DAVID STAPLES....................151
Voices from the Teum: Synesthetic Trauma and the Ghosts of the Korean Diaspora GRACE M. CHO....................170
In Calcutta, Sex Workers Organize MELISSA DITMORE....................187
More Than a Job: Meaning, Affect, and Training Health Care Workers ARIEL DUCEY....................209
Haunting Orpheus: Problems of Space and Time in the Desert JONATHAN R. WYNN....................231
Always on Display: Affective Production in the Modeling Industry ELIZABETH WISSINGER....................261
The Wire JEAN HALLEY....................264
Losses and Returns: The Soldier in Trauma GREG GOLDBERG AND CRAIG WILLSE....................287
Bibliography....................303
Contributors....................305