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Coming to Our Senses: Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture

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Availability:In StockContributor:Dierdra ReberPublish date:2016-02-02Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231170529ISBN-10:231170521UPC:9780231170529Book Category:Philosophy, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Movements, Media StudiesBook Topic:Critical Theory, DeconstructionSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC9F6ER57R

Coming to Our Senses positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known. From Facebook "likes" to Coca-Cola "loves," from "emotional intelligence" in business to "emotional contagion" in social media, affect has displaced reason as the primary catalyst of global culture.

Through examples of feeling in the books, film, music, advertising, cultural criticism, and political discourse of the United States and Latin America, Reber shows how affect encourages the public to "reason" on the strength of sentiment alone. Well-being, represented by happiness and health, and ill-being, embodied by unhappiness and disease, form the two poles of our social judgment, whether in affirmation or critique. We must then reenvision contemporary politics as operating at the level of the feeling body, so we can better understand the physiological and epistemological conditions affirming our cultural status quo and contestatory strategies for emancipation.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231170529ISBN-10:231170521UPC:9780231170529Book Category:Philosophy, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Movements, Media StudiesBook Topic:Critical Theory, DeconstructionSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC9F6ER57R
Dierdra Reber is assistant professor of Spanish at Emory University. Her essays on the cultural politics of Latin American film and fiction and the epistemology of global culture have appeared in Revista Iberoamericana, Modern Language Notes, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, differences, and nonsite.
Publisher: Columbia University Press

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