Coming to our senses : affect and an order of things for global culture /

Coming to Our Sense positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known. From Facebook "likes" to Coca-Cola "loves," from "emotional intelligence" in business to "emotional contagion" in soc...

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Main Authors: Reber, Dierdra
Published: Columbia University Press,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: Coming to Our Sense positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known. From Facebook "likes" to Coca-Cola "loves," from "emotional intelligence" in business to "emotional contagion" in social media, affect has displaced reason as the primary catalyst of global culture. Through examples of feeling in the books, films, music, advertising, cultural criticism, and political discourse of the United States and Latin America, Reber shows how affect encourages the public to "reason" on the strength of sentiment alone. Well-being
Carrier Form: xxxi, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-312) and index.
ISBN: 9780231170529
0231170521
9780231540902
0231540906
Index Number: BH301
CLC: B83-02
Call Number: B83-02/R291
Contents: Tracking the feeling Soma -- Affective contours of knowledge -- Headless capitalism -- The feeling Soma -- The feeling Soma: humanity as a singular we -- We are the world: sentient people and planet in sustainability discourse homeostatic dynamics -- Becoming well beings: homeostatic dynamics and the metaphor of health -- Legs, love, and life: the affective political actor as a well being -- Affective biopower.