Affective Transformations. Politics – Algorithms

Bösel, BerndWiemer, Serjoscha2020-11-102020-11-102020978-3-95796-166-2https://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/9783957961662_Affective_Transformations.pdfhttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15975The Affective Turn has lost its former innocence and euphoria. Affect Studies and its adjacent disciplines have now to prove that they can cope with the return of the affective real that technology, economy, and politics entail. Two seemingly contradictory developments serve as starting points for this volume. First, technological innovations such as affective computing, mood tracking, sentiment analysis, and social robotics all share a focus on the recognition and modulation of human affectivity. Affect gets measured, calculated, controlled. Secondly, recent developments in politics, social media usage, and right-wing journalism have contributed to a conspicuous rise of hate speech, cybermobbing, public shaming, “felt truths,” and resentful populisms. In a very specific way, politics as well as power have become affective. Affect gets mobilized, fomented, unleashed. When the ways we deal with our affectivity get unsettled in such a dramatic fashion, we have to rethink our ethical, aesthetical, political as well as legal regimes of affect organization.<ul> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14987'>Bernd Bösel: Affective Transformations: An Introduction</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14988'>Paul Stenner: Affect: On the Turn</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14999'>Gabriele Gramelsberger: Algorithm Awareness: Towards a Philosophy of Artifactuality</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15010'>Bernd Bösel: Affective Media Regulation: Or, How to Counter the Blackboxing of Emotional Life</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15021'>Oliver Leistert: From Social Data to Body Data to Psy Data: Tap, Tap, Tap</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15024'>Marie-Luise Angerer: Affective Milieus: Intensive Couplings, Technical Sentience, and a Nonconscious In-between</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15025'>Pierre Cassou-Noguès: Synhaptic Sensibility</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15026'>Dawid Kasprowicz: Encoding Proximity: Intuition in Human–Robot Collaborations</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15027'>Irina Kaldrack: Autonomous Dwelling: Smart Homes and Care IT</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15028'>Serjoscha Wiemer: Happy, Happy, Sad, Sad: Do You Feel Me? Constellations of Desires in Affective Technologies</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14989'>Andrew A. G. Ross: Mediated Humanitarian Affect</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14990'>Michaela Ott: Affection and Dividuation</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14991'>Matthias Fuchs: Attuning to What? The Uncanny Revival of the Aestheticization of Politics</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14992'>Jean Clam: Witnessing the Dismantlement of a Proven Structure of Belief: The Challenge of Populism and Alternative Facts to Liberal Democracy</a></li> <li><a href='https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14993'>Markus Rautzenberg: Alien Thinking: On the Return of the Sublime as an Affective Medium</a></li> </ul>engAffektMedientheoriePolitik302.23Affective Transformations. Politics – Algorithms – Mediahttps://doi.org/10.14619/165510.25969/mediarep/14986