... site. I explain each of these sites here, in turn. © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 Post qualitative inquiry Research creation Assemblage theory Affect Impasse Fuck it is a performative utterance of productive disinterest in the project of naming of social...

... both analyze and perform a subversion, problematizing notions of authenticity, authorship, ownership, production, distribution, reception, and meaning? Can immersion in fragmented, derivative writing produce an affective experience in line with a contemporary post-pandemic and technologically...

...Giulia Carozzi This essay is the outcome of my affective immersion in a century-old family archive. Through writing as a method of inquiry, I focus on a particular episode that happened within my family and use it as a starting point to question the archive as a performative, patriarchal system...

... reminds us, is “not a personal (psychic) condition but a social one.” 12 I distinguish bad feelings from Ngai’s concept of “ugly feelings,” which reflect negative affects that are nonproductive. Per Ngai, ugly feelings are “explicitly, a moral, and non cathartic, offering no satisfactions of virtue...

... flanked the south and north sides of the home. Evergreens, I presumed. © 2020 by the Regents of the University of California 2020 Climate change Composition Affect Writing *** I am looking at those trees now. Along the southern margin of our rental home live 12 eastern hemlocks...

...Chris Ingraham Drawing from in situ fieldwork in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the northernmost settlement on Earth, these notes bring out the affective, ambient, and atmospheric power of extended darkness during the polar night, when the sun does not appear above the horizon for several months at a time...

... with cities, social structures, and popular media messages. One way to explore hurricane styles is through forms of affective mapping. This exploration analyzes features of several hurricanes that made landfall in 21st-century North America in combination with considerations of affect around hurricanes...

...Salma T. Shukri; Kate G. Willink By highlighting a collaborative praxis between performative interviewing and affect theories, this essay theorizes interpretive discernment as an orientational and conceptual foundation that paves the way for performative interviewing. Interpretive discernment...

...Stacy Holman Jones This brief essay introduces a series of performative writing experiments including prose, poetry, and performance that explore ordinary objects from the window opened by theory, including new materialist, posthuman, and affect-oriented approaches. © 2019 by the Regents...

...Fiona Alana Murray This essay brings together Amazon, consumer reviews, a science project, and ordinary objects in order to examine how affect works between and within them, both sticking them together and tearing them apart. This is a sticky tale with a speedy delivery. © 2019 by the Regents...

... the inexpressible about what it is to write, to construct a body-as-book? In our efforts to attend to the affective force alive in our writing, in a new materialist sense, we push up against the solipsistic relationship between materiality and time, the paradox Matthew Reason names when he says that at the “same...

... rights reserved. Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints 2019 Performative writing Arts-based research Affect Ordinary objects Does rain belong...

.... Chen, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012); Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009). 3. Anne M. Harris and Stacy Holman Jones, The Queer Life of Things (forthcoming...

.... Using a multiple/collaborative autoethnographic approach, the authors further theorize on the relationality, emotionality, and affect of both public response and collaborative methodology. While one might rail against the deterioration of a marketplace of ideas, I mourn the fact that Charlottesville...

... reserved. Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2017 Personal narrative Affect Performance text After September 11, 2001, the base reeks...

... by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2017 Performance Affect Michael Jackson...

...Devika Chawla Bodies travel. Bodies travel geographies. Bodies perform geographies. Geopolitical migrations are the subject of much writing, performing, and debate in contemporary scholarship. In this piece, I trace the migration of an affect that sits in the liminal space between the body...

...Jonathan Wyatt A poetic emergence of the particular—a particular place, day, time, moment, event—and its (extra)ordinary affect. © 2016 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Request permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California...

...Lisa A. Mazzei Kathleen Stewart describes Ordinary Affects as an experiment set in “a present that began some time ago.” In this essay, I consider voice similarly, as not bound by a temporal linearity, but as voice of duration, absent of origin and as an articulation of a present that began some...

...Ken Gale This essay describes instances in the rhythmic play with affect in the reading of and performances with Kathleen Stewart's Ordinary Affects . It offers an engagement with the work that both troubles and is troubled. It celebrates this engagement and delights in the opportunity to read...