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Hauptseminar
SoSe 20: Theories of Affect
Ulla Haselstein
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ONLINE COURSE. For more than twenty years, affect theory has been a lens for the analysis of interpersonal (or intra-personal) relationships. Drawing on both neuropsychological and philosophical sources, affect has been described as a pre- or anti-subjective force or flow that operates autonomously and eludes the signifying practices of culture. Connecting bodies, not individual minds, affect is seen as intensity, offering a way to think the contingent and the emergent (Massumi 2002). There have been harsh critiques of this model of affect (Hemmings 2005, Leys 2011), but also suggestions how to integrate it into established analytical modes of the social sciences (Wetherell 2012) or psychoanalysis and media studies (Angerer 2007). In the fields of art, film and literature, affect theory has become prominent as well (Berlant 2011). From the view-point of social constructivism however, the question is a different one: affects are structured by frames of interpretation which the individuals do not fully grasp (cf. Butler 2009).
The Seminar will read and review the various positions and discuss their analytic power in understanding literary texts.
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