...Sandra K. Soto In this brief feel-piece, Sandra K. Soto feels her way around some of the “flickering recognition” that sparked her love of José Esteban Muñoz and his wildly original and audacious efforts to read brown embodiment, wit, and affect through a non- (but never anti -) identitarian lens...

...Ann Cvetkovich Focusing in particular on how affect theory has been informed by art practice, this article develops the concept of the “sovereignty of the senses” through queer and feminist installation projects by Rachael Shannon and Zoe Leonard, as well as Alison Bechdel’s account of retreat from...

...Maggie Hennefeld Is Laughter an affect? And what would it mean for feminist theory to conceive of it as such? This article pursues laughter as an affect that bridges the gap between feminist comedy studies and feminist affect theory. Laughter has widely missed the mark of feminist theory’s sourcing...

...Kathleen Woodward Video artist Cecelia Condit’s recent work offers a rich visual and sonic poetics of feeling, engaging multiple varieties of sensation, affect, and emotion. Drawing on Erin Manning’s theory of preacceleration, this essay provides a close reading of Condit’s beguiling Within...

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