Affects, Interfaces, Events
Edited by Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen, Jette Kofoed, and Jonas Fritsch
This book engages with how affective encounters are shaped and conditioned by interfacial events. Together, the chapters explore the implications of this on a micro-perceptual and macro-relational level through an experimental middling of approaches and examples. While broadly departing from a Spinozist and Deleuzian theoretical foundation, the book weaves together a compelling number of conceptual and empirical trajectories. Always attuned to the implications, modulations and tonalities arising in the readings through art, journalism, bodies, an/archives, data and design, Affects, Interfaces, Events allows for a truly transdisciplinary resonance driven by theory, technology and practice.
Table of Contents
Affects, Interfaces, Events
Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen, Jette Kofoed, and Jonas Fritsch
Disfluent Interfaces. Affective Conversations: Differencing Humans and Machines in AI
Anna Munster
Technics Lifeless and Technics Alive: Activity Without and With Content
Andrew Murphie
The Affective Politics of Interfacial News: Danish News Media’s Coverage of #MeToo on Facebook
Camilla Møhring Reestorff
Viral Hauntology: Specters of AIDS in Infrastructures of Gay Sexual Sociability
Kristian Møller and Chase Ledin
Interfacial Modulation of Affect: On the Creation of Events in Contemporary Artworks
Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen
Seeing Relation: The Perceptual Event in Olafur Eliasson's Art
Katrine Annesdatter-Madsen
Atmospheric Intensities: Skin Conductance and the Collective Sensing Body
Elizabeth de Freitas and David Rousell
We Still Do Not Know What a City Can Do: Modulation of Affect in Urbanism and Spatial Politics
Kristine Samson
If the study of affect follows the question "What can a body do?", then this collection offers a followup question that is both necessary and productive: “what can an interface do?” In the essays included within this collection show, interfaces do a lot. Events and bodies are themselves conditioned by and condition the interfaces (digital but also otherwise) that we encounter in any given event on any given scale.
—Casey Boyle, University of Texas-Austin
Ranging across diverse terrain, these essays each reveal generative and creative thinking-feeling with the key concepts as they cluster together, overlap and veer away from one another. Accessible yet illuminating, Affects, Interfaces, Events offers compelling interventions that will interest both newcomers to affect studies and scholars already steeped in the field.
—Michael Richardson, University of New South Wales