Speculative Affect
Objects and Emotions
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Speculative Affect: Objects and Emotions is an edited collection examining the intersection between affect and objects in the fields of literature, cultural theory, and cultural production. The word “speculative” in the title references recent philosophical and cultural work in the “speculative turn,” a philosophical field that includes speculative realism, new materialisms, “thing” theory, or object-oriented ontology, where the object is analyzed apart from human consciousness and human use-value. By linking this return to an ontological object realism beyond human consciousness with affect theory’s reimagining of corporeality by exploring attachments, bodily sensations, autonomic responses, and emotions as embodied forces beyond conscious knowing, this work addresses the last frontier in radically reconfiguring the status of human life – the division and hierarchy between so-called inert material and the apparent “superiority” of humanity.
Charmaine Eddy is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where she teaches modern American literature, Black literary studies, and literary and cultural theory. She has published several articles on new materialisms and hoarding, including “The Art of Consumption: Capitalist Excess and Individual Psychosis in Hoarders” in Canadian Review of American Studies and “Trash and Aesthetics in the Hoard” in NANO: New American Notes Online. 'She also has a forthcoming monograph on William Faulkner, States of Racial Abjection: Writing the Liminal South in William Faulkner’s Later Fiction, accepted for publication by the University of Mississippi Press.
Speculative Affect: Objects and Emotions is an edited collection examining the intersection between affect and objects in the fields of literature, cultural theory, and cultural production. The word “speculative” in the title references recent philosophical and cultural work in the “speculative turn,” a philosophical field that includes speculative realism, new materialisms, “thing” theory, or object-oriented ontology, where the object is analyzed apart from human consciousness and human use-value. By linking this return to an ontological object realism beyond human consciousness with affect theory’s reimagining of corporeality by exploring attachments, bodily sensations, autonomic responses, and emotions as embodied forces beyond conscious knowing, this work addresses the last frontier in radically reconfiguring the status of human life – the division and hierarchy between so-called inert material and the apparent “superiority” of humanity.
Examines the intersection between affect & objects in the fields of literature, cultural theory, and cultural production Theorizes the convergence of effect with speculative realism & new materialisms offering ethical intervention Looks at the intersection of objects and affect in the field of contemporary fine art
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Charmaine Eddy
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Speculative affect Object affect Speculative materialism Speculative realism Affect theory Posthumanism
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Speculative Affect proposes a conjunction between affect theory, on the one hand, and new materialist theory, on the other. By combining these, the volume explores human entanglements with nonhuman actors, and considers how our social lives are inflected, and how we are moved and affected, by energies and tendencies extending beyond our ken. This is vital work for the 21st century. (-- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University, USA.)
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