The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique, Critical Semiotics: Theory, from Information to Affect, The Forms of the Affects and Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

Lee M. Pierce

doi:10.5325/philrhet.53.2.0181

Philosophy & Rhetoric May 2020

The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique, Critical Semiotics: Theory, from Information to Affect, The Forms of the Affects and Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

Lee M. Pierce SUNY Geneseo

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ABSTRACT While claiming to be a much-needed corrective to the dual disappointments of structuralism and post-structuralism, one is starting to get the sense that affect may have simply inverted, rather than resolved, the binary of form/feeling. Yet emerging within and against the affective turn is a re-turn to structure as the condition of possibility for affectivity. From this re-turn, which I'll term affective formalism, is culled the transdisciplinary exemplars reviewed here: Ruth Leys's The Ascent of Affect, Gary Genosko's Critical Semiotics, Eugenie Brinkema's The Forms of the Affects, with a nod to Eve Sedgwick's Touching Feeling. Far from caging affect, these new (and not so new) books suggest a return to form, once again, with feeling.

Journal: Philosophy & Rhetoric
Published: 2020-05-22
DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.53.2.0181
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Topics: writing pedagogy affect and writing
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