Tag Archives: Affect
The Vertiginous: Temporalities and Affects of Social Vertigo: Ordinariness
Elena Miltiadis
December 1932. A mark in time and a plan drawn on blank paper. A genesis. A date so recent that it could still exist as part of living memory. The dark pencil traced the regular shapes of streets and squares that soon became a new city, built by the fascist regime on reclaimed land thatRead more
The Vertiginous: Temporalities and Affects of Social Vertigo: Concussion
Susan Lepselter
Raymond Williams described the pre-emergent structure of feeling: …at the very edge of semantic availability, has many of the characteristics of a pre-formation, until specific articulations – new semantic figures – are discovered in material practice; often, as it happens, in relatively isolated ways (Williams, 1977: 134). She feels fine except for the slight headache.Read more