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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Affect theory"”.
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Applying Affect Theory to Studies of Legislative Prayer: Analyzing the Abortion Debate
… about abortion have the potential to change the affect within the political atmosphere. I transcribed a series of prayers offered prior to state legislative sessions which included deliberation and/or votes on bills pushing for abortion restrictions. Using these prayers, I investigate the …
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Enacting (Re)Actions: Affect Theory and Embodied Resonance in Improvisational Contemporary Dance and Compositional Pedagogy
… in contemporary practice. 'Enacting (Re)Actions: Affect Theory and Embodied Resonance in Improvisational Contemporary Dance and Compositional Pedagogy' delves into improvisational practice, analysing theoretical concepts in the field, including mind-body consciousness, embodiment, corporeal …
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Affective Triggers in Defoe's Moll Flanders
This thesis applies affect theory to Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, offering readers a new perspective on how existential experiences and their relationship to glamour and commodities contribute to Moll's sense of fear and shame and the constant deterritorialization and reterritorialization of her …
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Active Affections: One or Several Canyons
… all? This dissertation explores the concept of affect, using a collage methodology. To conduct an exploration of affect, which “transpires within and across the subtlest of shuttling intensities” (Seigworth and Gregg 2), this dissertation both explores and performs collage; taking collage as …
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Affect, Literature and the Medical Encounter
… in the amelioration of the illness experience. Affect theory, especially as described by Massumi, Stern, Sointu, Damasio and Frank, employs the concepts of "the virtual", embodiment, and "vitality" in examining the dynamics, and enhanced potential for healing, of the clinical consultation. Seen …
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Going with Your Gut: A Study of Affect, Satire, and Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election
This thesis is an exploration of affect theory and emotional rhetoric in the 2016 Presidential Election, and specifically in Donald Trump’s candidacy, first through a series of rhetorical readings of Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail and after his election. The first section of this thesis …
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A Somatics of Affect: Articulating Affective-Kinaesthetic Experience through BMC approaches to Performance and Writing
… two decades, there has been a ubiquitous turn to affect theory in discourses within the humanities and social sciences. Whilst it is the overarching intention of affect theory to bring the body back into focus in critical and cultural debate, this thesis identifies a paradoxical lack of …
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“I Want Them to Feel Nervous”: A Case Study of Embodiment, Affect, and Emotion in Latin Dance Instruction
… team. Anchored in the theoretical framework of affect theory, this study investigates how an instructor’s affective presence and embodied knowledge create spaces for emotional exploration, cultural connection, and empowerment among students. Drawing inspiration from embodied literacies, this …
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Furious Females: Women's Writing as an Archive of Anger
… anger complicate this conversation? Drawing from affect theory, intersectional feminist theory, discourse analysis, feminist discourse analysis, philosophical discussions about emotion, feminist literary theory, and ongoing debates surrounding nostalgia, this dissertation explores the function of …
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An affective (dis)ordering of difference: a practice approach to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access in veterinary medicine
… teaching hospital, this study combines practice theory, communication constitutes organizing (CCO), and affect theory. Four themes emerged from the analysis: affective economy of veterinary identity, atmosphere of whiteness, disordered attunement, and neutrality of practices.
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Calling All Cast Members: Elevating Material Objects and Ambient Environments to Non-Human Rhetorical Actors in Arden of Faversham
… Using these principles, as well as Actor-Network Theory and Affect Theory, objects and environments can be elevated to non-human actors in a play’s rhetorical situation. Arden of Faversham engages heavily with the material world at every level of the play, making it a prime candidate for such an …
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Affect and Critique: Negative Dialectics and Massumi's Politics of Affect
<p>Brian Massumi's concept of affect offers a model of change that relies on sensory-affective modes of resistance to neoliberal power relations. Influenced by Bergson's concepts of time and space, Massumi develops an account of perception as the capacity to entrain with ontological, affective …
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Protest Beyond Representation: The Vitalism of Digital Protest Art's Political Aesthetics
… lend themselves to an analysis guided by affect theory, this sub-discipline within communication studies has tended to lack the methodological specificity to reproduce or expand applications. Daniel Stern's vitality pentad acts as a heuristic by which to study rhetorical objects; these …
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“Of Considerable Interest But of No Great Importance”: Models of Relationality in the Work of Jane Bowles
… she demonstrates models of relationality. Using affect theory, this paper explores the way that Bowles's work may offer theories of relationality, in which the self and other function via processes of reading and inscription. These models work as criticisms or investigations of relational …
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Intimate worlds : reading for intimate affects in contemporary video games
… on others, and precarity. Drawing from Deleuzian affect theory and feminist, queer and posthuman theorists, I read for intimate affects in the formal, aesthetic, proprioceptive and structural elements of Overwatch, The Last Guardian and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Ultimately, I argue …
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Feeling Political: Affect, Emotion, and Ethics in Western Political Theory
… resources would it take for political theory to be able to more deeply analyze the emotional and affective dimensions of political life? In this dissertation, I articulate interdisciplinary work on affect and emotion into political theory in order to realize four linked objectives: …
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Ethical leadership in firms: antecedents and consequences
… drawing on empathy literature and moral affect theory of gratitude, Model I hypothesized that leaders' moral emotions (empathy and gratitude) should predict ethical leadership behaviors. Based on ethical leadership literature and theories of creativity, Model II hypothesized that ethical …
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The ghostly body of the future. Nostalgic objects and modernization from post-unification to post-war reconstruction
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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"""The Everyday Affective Life of Racism"": Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature"
In “‘The Everyday Affective Life of Racism’: Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature,” I summon the concept of racial melancholia put forth by Anne Anlin Cheng, David Eng, and Shinhee Han as a springboard, expanding their definitions by closely reading the forms of racial …
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Connectivity and Contemporaneity in Ali Smith’s Oeuvre: A Critical Study
… feminist, queer, New Ethical, postcolonial and affect theory within the context of contemporary British literature and culture. This thesis also explores dialogue with other writers, artists, and cultural references which characterise Smith's highly allusive style by integrating these strands as …
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