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Affect and Subjectivity

This special issue advocates for affect studies as a mode of critical inquiry of use to radical projects of queerness, blackness, disability, decolonization, and temporalities of the body, a turn that is dependent on our re-engagement with subjectivity. The editors discuss the debates around the role of the subject in affect studies and the political dimension of affect before thinking through the contributions of the five pieces in this special issue. Collectively, affecting subjectivity through an attention to matter, the non-conscious, and identity, and politicizing affect through an attention to form, ontology and practice. Overall experimenting, we hope, with Anzaldúa’s call to, “move beyond confining parameters of what qualifies as knowledge” (1990, p. 230).

Editors

  • Ali Lara

    The guest editors are a group of critical theorists who read, thought, wrote, and practiced together at the City University of New York during the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the 2016 US presidential election.

  • Wen Liu

    The guest editors are a group of critical theorists who read, thought, wrote, and practiced together at the City University of New York during the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the 2016 US presidential election.

  • Colin Patrick Ashley

    The guest editors are a group of critical theorists who read, thought, wrote, and practiced together at the City University of New York during the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the 2016 US presidential election.

  • Akemi Nishida

    The guest editors are a group of critical theorists who read, thought, wrote, and practiced together at the City University of New York during the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the 2016 US presidential election.

  • Rachel Jane Liebert

    The guest editors are a group of critical theorists who read, thought, wrote, and practiced together at the City University of New York during the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the 2016 US presidential election.

  • Michelle Billies

    The guest editors are a group of critical theorists who read, thought, wrote, and practiced together at the City University of New York during the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the 2016 US presidential election.

Articles (9 in this collection)

  1. Affect and subjectivity

    Authors (first, second and last of 6)

    • Ali Lara
    • Wen Liu
    • Michelle Billies
    • Content type: Editorial
    • Published: 24 April 2017
    • Pages: 30 - 43

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