Title & Author:

Affective transformations : politics, algorithms, media / edited by Bernd Bösel and Serjoscha Wiemer.

Publication:

Lüneburg, Germany : meson press, 2020.

Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Restrictions:

Open access.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Affective Transformations: An Introduction / Bernd Bösel -- Affect: On the Turn / Paul Stenner -- Algorithm Awareness: Towards a Philosophy of Artifactuality / Gabriele Gramelsberger -- Affective Media Regulation: Or, How to Counter the Blackboxing of Emotional Life / Bernd Bösel -- From Social Data to Body Data to Psy Data: Tap, Tap, Tap / Oliver Leistert -- Affective Milieus: Intensive Couplings, Technical Sentience, and a Nonconscious In-between / Marie-Luise Angerer -- Synhaptic Sensibility / Pierre Cassou-Noguès -- Encoding Proximity: Intuition in Human-Robot Collaborations / Dawid Kasprowicz -- Autonomous Dwelling: Smart Homes and Care IT / Irina Kaldrack -- Happy, Happy, Sad, Sad: Do You Feel Me? Constellations of Desires in Affective Technologies / Serjoscha Wiemer -- Mediated Humanitarian Affect / Andrew A. G. Ross -- Affection and Dividuation / Michaela Ott -- Attuning to What? The Uncanny Revival of the Aestheticization of Politics / Mathias Fuchs -- Witnessing the Dismantlement of a Proven Structure of Belief: The Challenge of Populism and Alternative Facts to Liberal Democracy / Jean Clam -- Alien Thinking: On the Return of the Sublime as an Affective Medium / Markus Rautzenberg.
English.

Summary:

"The Affective Turn has lost its former innocence and euphoria. Affect Studies and its adjacent disciplines have now to prove that they can cope with the return of the affective real that technology, economy, and politics entail. Two seemingly contradictory developments serve as starting points for this volume. First, technological innovations such as affective computing, mood tracking, sentiment analysis, and social robotics all share a focus on the recognition and modulation of human affectivity. Affect gets measured, calculated, controlled. Secondly, recent developments in politics, social media usage, and right-wing journalism have contributed to a conspicuous rise of hate speech, cybermobbing, public shaming, "felt truths," and resentful populisms. In a very specific way, politics as well as power have become affective. Affect gets mobilized, fomented, unleashed. When the ways we deal with our affectivity get unsettled in such a dramatic fashion, we have to rethink our ethical, aesthetical, political as well as legal regimes of affect organization"--Publisher's description

ISBN:

9783957961662 (PDF)
3957961661 (PDF)
(print)
9783957961655
3957961653

Subject:

Affect (Psychology) Political aspects.
Sociotechnical systems Political aspects.
Sense data Political aspects.
Mass media Political aspects.
Mass media Psychological aspects.
Mass media Social aspects.
Technology Political aspects.
Technology Psychological aspects.
Technology Social aspects.
Systèmes socio-techniques Aspect politique.
Données sensorielles Aspect politique.
Médias Aspect psychologique.
Médias Aspect social.
Technologie Aspect politique.
Technologie Aspect psychologique.
Technologie Aspect social.
Media studies.
Affect (Philosophy) Affect theory Affective technology Affect studies

Form/genre:

Essay
essays.
Essays
Discursive works.
Essais.
Discours et échanges.

Added entries:

Bösel, Bernd, editor.
Wiemer, Serjoscha, editor.