Introduction: Mediating Affect

Cefai, Sarah. 2017. Introduction: Mediating Affect. Cultural Studies, 32(1), pp. 1-17. ISSN 0950-2386 [Article]

[img]
Preview
Text
Article 0_Introduction_Mediating affect.pdf - Accepted Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial.

Download (225kB) | Preview

Abstract or Description

This Special Issue brings together seven affective mediations on the theme of mediating affect. The articles were presented in an earlier form at the inaugural Affect Theory Conference, held in Millersville (USA) in October 2015. Responding to a Call for Papers, authors were invited to take on the question of ‘media’ and ‘mediation’ in the context of the blossoming field of affect studies. Each article in turn tackles a particular trajectory of concern examined as a multiplicity – the philosophy/study of living and feeling, fear and the amplification of affect, trauma and absence, detention and compassion, memorialization and shōjo (少女) (the girl trope in postwar Japanese cinema), and whiteness and the good life. The theoretical, disciplinary, and cultural lineages are many. Developed together within the context of the project of cultural studies, the resulting Special Issue provides an opportunity to consider more deeply how ‘media-world assemblages’ (Murphie, A., in press. The world as medium. In: E. Manning, A. Munster, S. Thomsen and B. Marie, eds. Immediations. Sydney: Open Humanities Press) give rise to certain political and ethical questions. In this Issue, we encounter six different media-world formations and learn how they shift as they pulsate with affective relations. As well as introducing these relations, this Introduction canvases some of the conceptual work that has gone into ‘mediating affect’, addressing the context that underpins this bringing together of terms and seeking out ways of provoking further research.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2017.1394339

Keywords:

cultural studies, affect, media, medium, mediation, feeling

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Dates:

DateEvent
14 December 2017Published Online

Item ID:

25655

Date Deposited:

25 Jan 2019 09:41

Last Modified:

13 Jun 2021 23:48

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/25655

View statistics for this item...

Edit Record Edit Record (login required)