Ordinary Affects
I just finished reading a brilliant book about 'affect' by Kathleen Stewart --- finally I read something for my thesis that clicks, and is actually enjoyable too ...
'The Ordinary Can Turn On You'
The ordinary can turn on you.
Lodged in habits, conceits, and the loving and deadly contacts of everyday sociality, it can catch you up in something bad. Or good.
Or it can start out as one thing and then flip into something else altogether.
One thing leads to another. An expectation is dashd or fulfilled. An ordinary floating state of things goes sour or takes off into something amazing and good. Either way, things turn out to be not you thought they were.
That's the image on the cover.
'The Ordinary Can Turn On You'
The ordinary can turn on you.
Lodged in habits, conceits, and the loving and deadly contacts of everyday sociality, it can catch you up in something bad. Or good.
Or it can start out as one thing and then flip into something else altogether.
One thing leads to another. An expectation is dashd or fulfilled. An ordinary floating state of things goes sour or takes off into something amazing and good. Either way, things turn out to be not you thought they were.
That's the image on the cover.