Academic quote of the week, from Alexander Vasudevan, a lecturer in “cultural and historical geography” in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham. He blogs:
[. . . ] we are left in a general state of obstructed agency (see Sianne Ngai’s fantastic Ugly Feelings) and have become increasingly tethered to a form of sociality shaped by a congerie of negative affects (fear, paranoia, anxiety, envy). As Lauren Berlant has persuasively written, it is the supine affective charge of aspirational normativity with its increasingly “recessive” and “underperformative” modes of being that have come to characterize our current age of austerity.
I hope to have more to say about the assembling and composition of alternative subjectivites in a future post.
Can’t wait for that one.
Monitor: David Thompson
4 comments:
I live for the moment when we hear more about 'supine affective charge of aspirational normativity'. Suspicions are a great truth lies there. I am sure that when this is revealed we will discover we have all been looking into the burning bush without quite realising it, in the way that lots of chaps have looked into burning bushes without quite realising their true significance.
Will there be car chases in it?
And explosions?
And explosions?
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