Statistical panic - Kathleen M. Woodward
cultural politics and poetics of the emotions
KORTE INHOUD
In this moving and thoughtful book, Kathleen Woodward explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 1960s. She argues that we are constrained in terms of gender, race, and age by our culture’s scripts for “emotional” behavior and that the accelerating impoverishment of interiority is a symptom of our increasingly media-saturated culture. She also shows how we can be empowered by stories that express our experience, revealing the value of our emotions as a crucial form of intelligence. Referring discreetly to her own experience, Woodward examines the interpenetration of social structures and subjectivity, considering how psychological emotions are social phenomena, with feminist anger, racial shame, old-age depression, and sympathy for non-human cyborgs (including robots) as key cases in point. She discusses how emerging institutional and discursive structures engender “new” affects that in turn can help us understand our changing world if we are attentive to them—th...
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2009Uitgever: Duke University Press336 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0822343770ISBN-13: 9780822343776Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2009, 336pp, paperback, staat: goed. Ex libris voorin. [Auteur: Woodward, Kathleen] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Duke University Press] [Jaar: 2009] [Titel: Statistical Panic / Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions]
