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Producing Pleasure in the Contemporary University pp 49–64Cite as

Wild Choreography of Affect and Ecstacy

Contentious Pleasure (Joussiance) in the Academy

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Higher education institutions comprise entangled assemblages of bodies, material objects, discourses, spaces and diverse technologies. These entanglements are affective intensities that manifest embodied prepersonal relationality. As a prepersonal construct, affect is the social, physical and emotion change, or variation that is co-produced when assemblages of bodies and objects contact (see Coleman, 2005).

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Charteris, J., Nye, A., Jones, M. (2017). Wild Choreography of Affect and Ecstacy. In: Riddle, S., Harmes, M.K., Danaher, P.A. (eds) Producing Pleasure in the Contemporary University. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-179-7_5

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