Ordinary Affects

by Kathleen Stewart

Book Overview

Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart ponders how ordinary impacts create the subject as a capacity to affect and be affected. In a series of brief vignettes combining storytelling, close ethnographic detail, and critical analysis,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822341077
• ISBN13: 9780822341079
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 8.9"