Ordinary Affects

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 comb...

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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, Stewart relates the intensities and banalities of common experiences and strange encounters, half-spied scenes and the lingering resonance of passing events. While most of the instances rendered are from Stewart’s own life, she writes in the third person in order to reflect on how intimate experiences of emotion, the body, other people, and time inextricably link us to the outside world.

Stewart refrains from positing an overarching system—whether it’s called globalization or neoliberalism or capitalism—to describe the ways that economic, political, and social forces shape individual lives. Instead, she begins with the disparate, fragmented, and seemingly inconsequential experiences of everyday life to bring attention to the ordinary as an integral site of cultural politics. Ordinary affect, she insists, is registered in its particularities, yet it connects people and creates common experiences that shape public feeling. Through this anecdotal history—one that poetically ponders the extremes of the ordinary and portrays the dense network of social and personal connections that constitute a life—Stewart asserts the necessity of attending to the fleeting and changeable aspects of existence in order to recognize the complex personal and social dynamics of the political world.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ORDINARY AFFECTS
DOG DAYS
RUNNING IN ORDINARY TIME
A LITTLE ACCIDENT, LIKE ANY OTHER
TUNED IN
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ORDINARY AFFECTS
DOG DAYS
RUNNING IN ORDINARY TIME
A LITTLE ACCIDENT, LIKE ANY OTHER
TUNED IN
CIRCUIT TROUBLE
SHORT CIRCUIT
THE POLITICS OF THE ORDINARY
THE NEED TO REACT
FRAGMENTS
STILL LIFE
DAY-TRIPPING
POTENTIAL
TRACES
LETTER IN A BOTTLE
YARD SALE
PMS POWERED
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
THE “WE” OF MAINSTREAM BANALITY
HARDWIRED
DRYER SHEETS
THE PULL OF THE ORDINARY
“JULY MOUNTAIN”
FIRST DATE
COLOR THERAPY
JUST DO IT
SCANNING
THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS
THE JUMP
LEARNING AFFECT
WATER BUGS
GAMES OF SENSE
BEING IN PUBLIC
STRESS
NOT EXACTLY NEW
ROGUE INTENSITIES
ROAD RAGE
SURFACE TENSIONS
RELIEF
FANTASIES DRIFT
DISAPPEARING ACTS
MASTER PLANNED
RV FREEDOM
MAINSTREAMING
HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
WHAT’S GOING ON IN THERE?
BLUE TV NIGHTS
THE TV REPAIRMAN
COCOONS
THE TURNER DIARIES
THE SELF
BORDERLINES
THE AFFECTIVE SUBJECT
ODD MOMENTS
THINGS HAVE STARTED TO FLOAT
GO HOME A HERO
(DIS)ORIENTATION
EXTREME TRAJECTORIES
FLASH MOBS
ERUPTIONS
SCENES OF IMPACT
WHATEVER
SWARMING
AN ABJECT MAN
CLARITY
TEENAGERS WHO KILL
THE BODY GYRATES
GETTING STRAIGHT
ADDICTION
SELF-CLOSURE
SCENES OF LIFE
LIVE WIRE
HELLO DEARIE
ENCOUNTERS
24/7
THE UTOPIAN HOTEL
POWER IS A THING OF THE SENSES
AGENT ORANGE
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
AGENCIES
REDEMPTIVE VIOLENCE
THE NET
CONSPIRACY THEORY
A RAINDROP FALLS IN HOUSTON
TRACKING NUCLEAR WASTE
MOVING TARGETS
AMERICAN DREAM
FLOATING GAMES
SLOT MACHINE
PUSHING IT
FREE FALLING
PIPE DREAMS
BOTCHED ROBBERY
DREAM CUTS
WAL-MART
WHIRL-MART
THE TEXAS 7
PUBLIC SPECTERS
THE ORDINARY CAN TURN ON YOU
WORTH TALKING ABOUT
IDENTITY SURGES
SUBURBAN APOCALYPTICISM
BODY FOR LIFE
THE BODY SURGES
THE OWL
SOMETIMES WHEN YOU HEAR SOMEONE SCREAM…
THE VITAL, SWEET, AND SAD
VITALITY
FIREFIGHTERS
DEATH SIGHTINGS
BORDER STORY 1
BORDER STORY 2
STILL WATCHING
DART GAME
THE VAGUENESS OF THE ORDINARY
BEGINNINGS
REFERENCES
for ARIANA CLAIRE STEWART
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