The autonomy of affect
By B. Massumi. Philosophy Journal, 2020
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Just images, no words, very simple. It was a story depicted in a short shown on German TV as a fill-in between programs. The film drew complaints from parents reporting that their children had been frightened. That drew the attention of a team of researchers. Their study was notable for failing to find much of what it was studying: cognition. Researchers, headed by Hertha Sturm, used three versions of the film: the original wordless version and two versions with voiceovers added. The first voice-over version was dubbed "factual." It added a simple step-by-step account of the action as it happened. A second version was called "emotional." It was largely the same as the "factual" version, but included at crucial turning points words expressing the emotional tenor of the scene under way.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience
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- Theorizing affective ethnography for organization studies (2018, background): “The turn to affect came about in the mid-1990s, when critical theorists, cultural critics, social geographers, and other social researchers urged a turn to affect (Blackman and Venn, 2010; Clough and Halley, 2007; Gregg and Seigworth, 2010; Massumi, 1995; Sedgwick and Frank, 1995; Thrift, 2004).”