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Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart ponders how ordinary impacts create the subject as a capacity to affect and be affected. In a series of brief vignettes combining storytelling, close ethnographic detail, and critical analysis, Stewart relates the intensities and banalities of common experiences and strange encounters, half-spied scenes and the lingering resonance of passing events. While most of the instances rendered are from Stewart's own life, she writes in the third person in order to reflect on how intimate experiences of emotion, the body, other people, and time inextricably link us to the outside world.Stewart refrains from positing an overarching system-whether it's called globalization or neoliberalism or capitalism-to describe the ways that economic, political, and social forces shape individual lives. Instead, she begins with the disparate, fragmented, and seemingly inconsequential experiences of everyday life to bring attention to the ordinary as an integral site of cultural politics. Ordinary affect, she insists, is registered in its particularities, yet it connects people and creates common experiences that shape public feeling. Through this anecdotal history-one that poetically ponders the extremes of the ordinary and portrays the dense network of social and personal connections that constitute a life-Stewart asserts the necessity of attending to the fleeting and changeable aspects of existence in order to recognize the complex personal and social dynamics of the political world.

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Sociologie, société et politique

Popular culture

Biological anthropology

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	20 septembre 2007
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822390404
Langue	English

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Ordinary Affects

Kathleen Stewart

Ordinary Affects

Kathleen Stewart

duke university press durham & london2007

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful to te National Endowment for te Humanities for a fellowsip year at te Scool of American Researc in Santa Fe; to te University of California, Irvine, Humanities Institute for six monts in Orange County; and to te University of Texas for a Dean’s Fellowsip and a Faculty Researc Assignment. Versions of various small parts of tis book ave been publised elsewere, as follows:Annual Review of Antropology  (); Intimacy, ed. Lauren Berlant (Cicago: University of Cicago Press, );Cultural Studies and Political heory, ed. Jodi Dean (Itaca: Cornell University Press, );Cross Cultural Poetics, no.  ();Modernism, Inc.: Essays on American Modernity, ed. Jani Scanduri and Micael hurston (New York: New York Uni-versity Press, ); “Public Sentiments: Memory, Trauma, His-tory, Action,” ed. Ann Cvetkovic and Ann Pelegrini, special issue ofScolar and Feminist Online, no.  ();Aestetic Subjects: Pleasures, Ideologies, and Etics, ed. Pamela Mattews and David McWirter (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, ); Transparency and Conspiracy: Etnograpies of Suspicion in te New World Order, ed. Harry G. West and Todd Sanders (Dur-am, N.C.: Duke University Press, );Histories of te Future, ed. Susan Harding and Daniel Rosenberg (Duram, N.C.: Duke University Press, );Handbook of Qualitative Researc, ed. Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln (London: Sage, ); and “Uncarted Territories: An Experiment in Finding Missing Cul-tural Pieces,” ed. Orvar Lofgren, special issue,Etnologia Europea: Journal of European Etnology, no.  (). Many people ave read or listened to parts or all of te various versions of tis book. I am especially grateful to Begoña Aretxaga,