[Air-L] New book announcement: How to Do Things with Affects

[Tomáš Jirsa]

Dear all,


I am delighted to announce the publication of *How to Do Things with
Affects: Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices* (Leiden:
Brill, 2019), edited by Ernst van Alphen and Tomáš Jirsa.



*How to Do Things with Affects* develops affect as a highly productive
concept for both cultural analysis and the reading of aesthetic forms.
Shifting the focus from individual experiences and the human interiority of
personal emotions and feelings toward the agency of cultural objects,
social arrangements, and aesthetic matter, the book examines how affects
operate and are triggered by aesthetic forms, media events, and cultural
practices. Transgressing disciplinary boundaries and emphasizing close
reading, the collected essays explore manifold affective transmissions and
resonances enacted by modernist literary works, contemporary visual arts,
horror and documentary films, museum displays, and animated pornography,
with a special focus on how they impact on political events, media
strategies, and social situations.

*Contributors: *Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Maria Boletsi, Eugenie
Brinkema, Pietro Conte, Anne Fleig, Bernd Herzogenrath, Tomáš Jirsa,
Matthias Lüthjohann, Susanna Paasonen, Christina Riley, Jan Slaby, Eliza
Steinbock, Christiane Voss.



*Table of Contents*

Introduction: Mapping Affective Operations
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By: Ernst van Alphen
<https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Ernst+van+Alphen> and Tomáš Jirsa
<https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1+Jirsa>



Chapter 1: Reading Irony through Affect: the Non-Sovereign Ironic Subject
in C.P. Cavafy’s Diary
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By: Maria Boletsi <https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Maria+Boletsi>



Chapter 2: (An)Aesthetics of Affect: the Case of Hyper-Realism
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By: Pietro Conte <https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Pietro+Conte>



Chapter 3: Relational Affect: Perspectives from Philosophy and Cultural
Studies <https://brill.com/abstract/book/edcoll/9789004397712/BP000005.xml>

By: Jan Slaby <https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Jan+Slaby>



Chapter 4: (Nearly) Nothing to Express : Horror : some Tread : a Toroid
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By: Eugenie Brinkema
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Chapter 5: Integrating Affect and Language: Essayism as an Affective
Practice in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities
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By: Anne Fleig <https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Anne+Fleig>
and Matthias
Lüthjohann
<https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Matthias+L%C3%BCthjohann>



Chapter 6: Affective Disfigurations: Faceless Encounters between Literary
Modernism and the Great War
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By: Tomáš Jirsa
<https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1+Jirsa>



Chapter 7: Monstrous Resonances: Affect and Animated Pornography
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By: Susanna Paasonen
<https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Susanna+Paasonen>



Chapter 8: Reading for Affects: Francis Bacon and the Work of Sensation
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By: Ernst van Alphen
<https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Ernst+van+Alphen>



Chapter 9: Affectively Effective: Affect as an Artistic-Political Strategy
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By: Mieke Bal <https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Mieke+Bal>



Chapter 10: Affect Is the Medium
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By: Christiane Voss
<https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Christiane+Voss>



Chapter 11: Et in Academia Ego: Affect and Academic Writing
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By: Bernd Herzogenrath
<https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Bernd+Herzogenrath>



Chapter 12: The Arab Spring’s Stranger: the Affective Media Phenomenon of
The Girl in the Blue Bra
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By: Christina Riley
<https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Christina+Riley>



Chapter 13: Affective Exchange in Portraiture: to Follow J. Jackie Baier
into the Photographic Dissolve
<https://brill.com/abstract/book/edcoll/9789004397712/BP000017.xml>

By: Eliza Steinbock
<https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Eliza+Steinbock>



For more information see: https://brill.com/view/title/54723



Tomas


Tomáš Jirsa, Ph.D.

Postdoc researcher


Faculty of Arts

Palacký University

Křížkovského 10 | 771 80 Olomouc | Czech Republic


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