Massumi on theorising ‘relation’ and ‘interactivity’
Brian Massumi speaks in the video interview below (which purports to have been recorded in 2001?!) about the ways in which we might want to think about ‘relation’ rather than ‘interaction’ when...
View ArticleReblog> Negotiating Affect in Media/Cultural Studies
Jussi Parikka blogs about an interesting review of Dean’s Blog Theory, Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect and his own Insect Media, by Greg Goldberg. Negotiating Affect in Media/Cultural Studies I came...
View ArticleReblog> Affect and Social Media Symposium #2 cfp
Tony Sampson has posted this, may be of interest to people who see this blog — Affect and Social Media Symposium #2 – cfp Wednesday 23rd March 2016 1-8pm University of East London, Docklands Campus,...
View ArticleApps & affect – Fibreculture 25
This issue of Fibreculture on “apps and affect” from last year (2015), stemming from a conference of the same name, has some fairly substantial looking contributions from interesting people. These...
View ArticleN. Katherine Hayles on UAVs/drones as ‘cognitive assemblages’
In a recent article in Critical Inquiry, N. Katherine Hayles formulates an understanding of particular kinds of technological support as ‘cognitive assemblages’ (sort of following Deleuze &...
View ArticleThe Assemblage Brain – new book from Tony Sampson
Via Virality : Looks interesting… Part of Minnesota’s spring catalogue – Out early Feb “The Assemblage Brain provides a much-needed critique of the black-box, computational brain that has been a...
View ArticleThe articles of faith of contemporary social and cultural geography
This post comes from a sense of dissatisfaction and a hope for finding different ways of (personally) doing geography. [I’ve been writing it for too long, so I’m just hitting “publish” – I welcome...
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Affect & Social Media 3.0 CFP
Via Tony Sampson… Affect and Social Media#3 2nd CFP Call for presentations and artworks Affect and Social Media#3 experience engagement entanglement Including the...
View ArticleAffective capitalism – a theme issue
Via Tony Sampson. A theme issue of the journal ephemera on ‘affective capitalism‘, which is probably of interest to some folk in geographyland. Affective capitalism is understood in this special issue...
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Tony Sampson on neuroculture
From a Conversation piece on Huxley, dystopia and how we might think about Facebook etc. in relation to Huxley’s “College of Emotional Engineering”, this concise evocation of his understanding of...
View ArticleGeography’s phlogiston?
“Affect” is to early-21st century human geography what “phlogiston” was to late-18th century chemistry. Discuss. An idle heretical thought for a Monday morning of marking… I’m not especially interested...
View ArticleReblog> CFP: Affect, Politics, Social Media
Via Tony Sampson. This may be of interest to followers of this blog… Call for papers: Affect, Politics, Social Media In prolongation of Affect and Social Media #3 Conjunctions: Transdisciplinary...
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