Affective Habits: Sensation, duration and animation (2021)
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Both apprehending and pursuing socio-political transformation requires closer engagement with the emergent links among sensation, duration, repetition, iteration, automation and atmosphere.
This chapter begins with a critical hypothesis: in order to better understand the logics, challenges and potentialities of social change at the current conjuncture, we might need to attend more carefully to the relationship between affect and habit. That is, in the midst of the turn to affect, renewed interest in habit, the rise of various ‘new’ materialisms and ecological approaches and the growing salience of algorithmic life, both apprehending and pursuing socio-political transformation may require closer engagement with the emergent links among sensation, duration, repetition, iteration, automation and atmosphere.
Pedwell, C. (2021) ‘Affective Habits: Sensation, Duration and Automation’ in Politics of Emotion. Power of Affect. Eds. S. Witzgall and M. Kesting. Berlin: Diaphanes. Open Access version.
