| Affective Connections: Towards a New Materialist Politics of Sympathy Contributor(s): Golanska, Dorota (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783489693 ISBN-13: 9781783489695 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $163.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory |
| Series: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Inspired by the philosophical framework of Deleuze and Guattari in relation to affect, Affective Connections disavows the dominant oppositional discourse around representation to offer an affirmative approach to perception, cognition and experience. It advances a new materialist concept of synaesthetic perception, where synaesthesia is understood as a union of senses. This idea offers a new figuration for thinking about our cognition, exploring the role of embodied experience and the agency of matter in the production of knowledge. Looking at a number of memorials, memory sites and artworks relating to the Holocaust the book uses this idea of synaesthetic perception to explore trauma, memory and the production of art in relation to painful memories. In doing so, it demonstrates that modes of interacting with the past and encountering the lived experience of trauma can trigger a deeper understanding of these events and produce more complex forms of affective connections. It proposes a shift away from empathy towards sympathy (understood in new materialist terms), not just as a sentimental response to trauma but as an affective notion that allows for a more comprehensive grasp of experiences of discrimination, exclusion, suffering, or pain. |
Contributor Bio(s): Golańska Dorota: - Dorota Golanska is Assistant Professor at the Department of American Studies and Mass Media at the University of Lodz, Poland. |