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Society for the Study of Affect Summer School AUGUST 6-8
Theme: SCAR at U of New Mexico - Albuquerque
Seminars: Katie Stewart + Greg Seigworth / Dylan Robinson + Oliver Shao / Asilia Franklin + Bretton Varga / talk w/ Erin Manning + Brian Massumi
For more details: affectsociety.com/scar
I love teaching this essay to my students.
Here is your INAUGURATION DAY COUNTERPROGRAMMING.
Capacities to: Affect Up Against Fascism.
Open access. Read online or download as pdf. (Book form coming soon.)
More than 40 contributors, over 350 pages.
READ. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY.
imbricate.press/book/capacit...
love this book
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anything that involves Anna Hickey-Moody will be brilliant
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There is still time to submit to the "Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism" project! We are 50+ proposals deep but don't mind entertaining a few more.
Deadline is Dec 31 for full submission (w/ or w/o abstract). 1500 words max. See the CFP for details.
Released Jan 20!
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ZOOM RECORDING of Society for the Study of Affect
00:00-10:00 SSA (who? how to join?)
10:00-22:00 Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism book project (background)
22:00-38:00 Getting Published in Capacious (being transparent)
38:00-1:00:00 Testimonials (feels)
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New book. FREE to DOWNLOAD. In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround. Yes, Lauren Berlant's work on inconvenience figures in here and there (see especially Susanna Paasonen's chapter).
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THIS IS HAPPENING TODAY NOV 25 4-5 pm.
flyer for a conversation about publishing with the affect studies journal Capacious
HAPPENING TODAY MONDAY 25 Nov: 4- 5 pm EST.
Zoom: bit.ly/capacitiesto
Info about the Society for the Study of Affect. Discussion of our 'up against fascism' book project. How to get published in Capacious: with testimonies from reviewers / reviewees. Rangy conversation at the very end if possible.
As soon as I can figure out how ...
Zoom meeting of Society for the Study of Affect. Monday Nov 25 4-5 pm. Publishing your first academic essay (maybe) in the journal Capacious.
Mon Nov 25 4- 5 pm EST zoom:
1) Society for the Study of Affect (events, open positions),
2)Q & A around the 'Capacities To' against fascism book,
3) discuss publishing in the journal Capacious for folks who might be new and/or understandably trepidatious about the process.
bit.ly/capacitiesto
If unfamiliar with the Society for the Study of Affect, more information, including membership, is available here: affectsociety.com
BOOK PROJECT. I posted this CFP in 300 character chunks earlier but here is the full pdf. Message w/ any questions.
"Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism" - deadline for abstracts is 10 Dec, with complete submissions (100-1500 words) due Dec 31.
Click the link for the pertinent details.
End transmission. Sorry it is so piecemeal. I will post a link to the full pdf once we have it uploaded to the SSA website.
● Beyond more usual written submissions, we are also very interested in visually oriented essays and artistic works.
● Poetic, experimental, and prose-mixed modes of writing are welcome.
● Submissions from non-US/North American and non-European countries are especially encouraged.
Final submissions are due December 31, 2024. Everyone will be notified about whether their submission has been accepted for publication (or not) by no later than Wednesday, January 8.
While we’d much prefer to read your abstract and offer any necessary revisions on the abstract or a completed submission as early as possible, you can also submit your paper for review on December 31 without having submitted an earlier abstract.
Please send a working title and opening paragraph/short overview to editor@imbricate.press by Dec 10, 2024. This allows us to see how the volume is shaping up, to see what’s missing, to figure out how to frame and introduce the pieces, etc.
So, then, will this be a book? a zine? a manifesto? a glossary? a manual for living? Maybe all of these, and something yet unforeseen.
That’s the aim of this project: to forge a place where we can gather up our respective orientation/disorientations and capacities/debilities to …intervene in, mess with, fuck up, turn over, probe and prick and deflate a furiously expanding fascism.
...provide the uniquely situated opportunities for embracing otherness as joyful and open-ended, for recognizing contamination and messiness as life-giving and not life-draining, for convincing bodies-minds that they/them is ultimately we/us? How do we get there while also bringing others along?
Namely, what/where/when/how does one (or several) unlock those ‘capacities to’ that dwell within the creases and along the cusp of fascism’s fearsome futurity, those capacities and incapacities that ...
So, this is where we need all of your energies, inventories (gleaning key lessons from struggles against fascism in other geographical locales and historical moments), and inventions.
Standing affect theory up against fascism requires not only a vibrantly visceral literacy but, even further, a capacity-to: compose/decompose/declaim/profane/make kin/raise a din (please insert your own word or phrase here) as our most forthright and capacious counter-tactic.