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Affective Connections

Towards a New Materialist Politics of Sympathy
  • ISBN-13: 9781783489695
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD INTERNAT.
  • By Dorota Golanska
  • Price: AUD $357.00
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2018
  • Format: Hardback 268 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: General studies [GTG]
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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.
Acknowledgements / Preface / Introduction: Seeing Differently / 1. Affect/Discourse: Towards a Synaesthetic Synthesis / 2. Memory Sites: Remembering Through Materiality / 3. Memory and Trauma: The Unspeakable / 4. Rhythms and Movements: Sensations, Becomings, Flows / 5. Affective Connections: Feminist Politics of Sympathy / Coda / Bibliography / Index
Acknowledgements / Preface / Introduction: Seeing Differently / 1. Affect/Discourse: Towards a Synaesthetic Synthesis / 2. Memory Sites: Remembering Through Materiality / 3. Memory and Trauma: The Unspeakable / 4. Rhythms and Movements: Sensations, Becomings, Flows / 5. Affective Connections: Feminist Politics of Sympathy / Coda / Bibliography / Index
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