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Car ramming attacks: Weaponized cars have a global footprint
"It subconsciously becomes part of the repertoire of options for people to express their anger in some way and they get exposed to it through the vectors of the media and social media."
"Redesigned urban areas could be one of the simplest ways to prevent car ramming attacks. Paille points to separating roads and footpaths as an example. "Things that make it more difficult for a vehicle to access certain spaces…I found that quite interesting in terms of thinking about public space and making sure it is usable by everyday citizens, but also can help their safety. Bollards are one option commonly used in built-up areas…”
https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-behind-the-many-german-car-ramming-attacks/a-71827106
https://theconversation.com/vancouver-suv-attack-exposes-crowd-management-falldowns-and-casts-a-pall-on-canadas-election-255395
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#cars #vehicles #motorists #SUVAttacks #drivers #machines #ramming #VehicleRammingAttacks #violence #anger #rage #RoadRage #AffectTheory #footpaths #pedestrians #safety #CrowdManagement #bollards #crime #PublicSpaces #VehicularHomicide #VehicularManslaughter #CarRamming #WeaponizedCars #society
Every house, footpath, public area needs serious bollards. (Bollards protecting a building from violence in Sawtell, NSW)
Hello Fediverse! Feels good to be back! With this account I hope to make my small contributions in #romance #horrorliterature research and the #discourse around #horror, #fear, the #uncanny and #affect in general, but also to share some thoughts on the current political and philosophical discourse concerning #affecttheory #psychoanalysis #existentialism and #cosmotechnics
Writing primarily in ENG and GER but also in RU, IT, PT, ESP and maybe even FR!
Continued thread
This 2024 book by Elizabeth Garner Masarik asks, "how women-led reform built the American welfare state" by harnessing 19th c #sentimentalism to drive political action
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=186609324X
"Writing during the Disasters" is a new book by Marius Henderson on suffering in contemporary #AmericanPoetry applying #AffectTheory, #QueerTheory, Black Feminism & more to the works of 7 poets and 1 artist collective
#Poetry #LiteraryStudies #AmericanLiterature
#AmericanStudies
In #BritCult2024 panel 5, Irene Valenti & Deborah de Muijnk explored affects related to #PercyByssheShelley's political poetry & #OscarWilde's #DorianGray respectively
Yesterday's Panel 2 at #BritCult2024 - Merle Tönnies & Dennis Henneböhl gave a great talk on the emotional rhetoric of the 2024 GB election, Andrew Wells on Liberty & Carolin Steinke on shame & the female body in Irish Nation-Building (#MagdaleneLaundries)
BritCult #AffectTheory
Day 2 of #BritCult2024 started w a panel on class & politics of emotion in 3 great talks by Susanne Bayerlipp (Burberry & Chav culture), Julia Boll (Neoliberal framing of community volunteering) & Anja Hartl (class & shame in Kieran Hurley's "Mouthpiece")
6.6: Emotional Literacy with Dr Tiffany Millacci
In this week’s episode, Ariel quizzes guest Dr Tiffany Millacci about emotional literacy. What is this relatively new phrase? How can being emotionally literate help us to navigate difficult conversations, awkward interactions, or even generally just having relationships in the first place? Isn’t all this talk of emotions just a different way for the self-help industry to get us to buy stuff?
Join us for a fascinating conversation about a complex topic - we barely skim the surface! But never fear, Dr Millacci has your back; listen in for some good places to start learning more.
Check out our blog for links!
Disclaimer: We’re coming from a white, western viewpoint and we recognize the limitations and strictures of that - even within the same cultures and societies (heck, within the same families) emotional expression can vary wildly according to personality, gender, neurodivergence, whatever your social location. This interview necessarily takes broad strokes to begin a conversation about how to better be in community with each other, and it is our hope that we can continue to showcase how this can vary, taking steps towards a solarpunk future where people can disagree - even on important topics like politics and religion - without violence or relationship rupture.
And we're back, baby!
6.1: How Dare Solarpunks Do OUTRAGE?!!! Ariel & Christina Discuss
Now streaming: some hot takes from your solarpunk aunties. Ariel and Christina consider why wallowing in negative feelings is just so delicious ... as opposed to wallowing in, you know, acts of kindness and feelings of compassion, which are just a bit more solarpunk. We live in an age of outrage, it seems: cancelling, social media mobbing, cyberbullying ... but also drawing attention to human rights violations, or dodgy political happenings, or just straight-up illegal goings-on! How can we tell whether our outrage is justified or not? How can we avoid emotional manipulation? Can we think of outrage as a solarpunk tool?
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Season6 #Episode #AffectTheory #Emotion #Outrage #RighteousAnger #SocialMediaMobbing #Cyberbullying #protest #NegativeAffects #EmotionalManipulation #EmotionalIntelligence #EmotionalLiteracy
Now updated with the correct link, even - Ariel
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I wrote an article for Unsustainable Magazine that is based around my dissertation research findings about what it means to wish for systems overhaul. The consequences of that desire are what I consider now in this article. It gets a bit personal; I am embedded within my own specific context and my observations come out of that situation.
https://www.unsustainablemagazine.com/apocalyptic-desire/
@academicchatter #apocalypse #scholarship #academia #desire #AffectTheory #consequences #Theory #theoretical #LiteraryTheory
unsustainable · A Look at Apocalyptic Desire: The Wish to Remake the WorldIt may be no surprise that many people have apocalyptic desire, a hope for global cleansing and perhaps renewal. But the future is in our hands. Let's discuss.
Je continue à vous inonder de remarques sur l’œuvre de Lauren Berlant. Je voulais parler de l'impact que ces lectures avaient sur moi, mais je suis tombé sur cette page d'hommages (peu après son décès en 2021) publiée dans The Nation, et le témoignage de Maggie Doherty (l'autrice de The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, livre que je n'ai pas (encore) lu mais ça ne saurait tarder) est tellement juste - et tellement Berlantien ! J'ai préféré vous le proposer plutôt que le mien (ça viendra plus tard de mon côté) :
“Imagine Reading Those Words” (Maggie Doherty)
"Je ne sais pas comment le dire autrement : L'œuvre de Lauren Berlant a changé ma vie. J'ai lu The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (1997) au début de mes études supérieures - j'ai trouvé le livre brillant et, qui plus est, extrêmement amusant - mais l'œuvre qui m'a vraiment ébranlée est Cruel Optimism (2011). Je me souviens encore de l'endroit où j'étais assis dans la bibliothèque lorsque j'ai lu la première ligne du livre : "Une relation d'optimisme cruel existe lorsque quelque chose que vous désirez est en fait un obstacle à votre épanouissement."
Imaginez que vous lisiez ces mots en tant que doctorant en anglais après 2008, en pleine récession : Vous êtes déjà anxieux et déprimé. Vous ruinez votre santé physique et mentale pour tenter d'obtenir une bourse sérieuse dans l'espoir de décrocher un emploi universitaire inexistant, dans un endroit éloigné de tous ceux que vous aimez et dans un secteur qui rend trop de gens malheureux. Imaginez ensuite que vous soyez cet étudiant diplômé, que vous lisiez ces mots et que vous viviez une mauvaise relation amoureuse que vous ne pouviez pas vous résoudre à quitter.
Pour ce type de personne, c'est-à-dire pour moi, le travail de Berlant a mis en lumière de tels cas de paralysie professionnelle et personnelle : J'étais attachée au monde universitaire et à mon petit ami, même s'ils me détruisaient, parce que je revenais sans cesse à "la scène du fantasme selon lequel cette fois-ci, la proximité de cette chose vous aidera ou aidera un monde à devenir différent de la bonne manière". Au fur et à mesure que je lisais le livre, les pièces de ma vie se sont réarrangées et sont tombées dans un nouvel ordre, un modèle que je pouvais enfin voir.
J'aimerais pouvoir dire que je suis sortie de la bibliothèque, puis du campus et de ma relation. Mais "tout attachement est optimiste", comme l'a noté Berlant, et il m'a fallu des années pour m'en extraire et m'attacher à d'autres objets moins "problématiques". Je ne suis plus universitaire et je n'écris plus de travaux d'érudition, mais je pense que tout ce que j'écris est influencé par la pensée de Berlant. Son travail m'a appris à regarder de près les façons dont les gens s'attachent à des objets (amants, nations), et à regarder aussi les conditions matérielles dont découlent l'affect et l'attachement. Ses écrits m'ont amenée à la psychanalyse, au féminisme, à l'organisation. Dans ma vie et dans mon travail, j'essaie de suivre l'exemple de Berlant et de politiser les sentiments : les considérer comme faisant partie de l'expérience publique et collective, plutôt que comme des caractéristiques de la vie privée et individuelle.
De temps en temps, en parcourant Twitter, je vois quelqu'un dire que son anxiété ou sa dépression n'est pas un "trouble" mais plutôt une réponse émotionnelle raisonnable à la vie sous le capitalisme, ou à la veille de l'apocalypse climatique. Je like le tweet, puis je me souviens de l'un des slogans du "feel tank" que Berlant a organisé avec d'autres chercheurs et artistes : "Déprimé ? C'est peut-être politique". "
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lauren-berlant-obituary/
(NB : Je songe là à la gêne que je ressens envers l'importance que prennent ces dernières années les "diagnostics" (souvent psychiatriques) dans la vie intime et sociale (et politique) : comment on s'attache à son "diag", comment on le revendique - et ce faisant, comment sont impactées les relations sociales que ces revendications dessinent -, et comment ce fameux diag finit par saturer le récit de soi - le dépolitiser, le des-historiciser, le dé-spatialiser - bref, cette naturalisation de la souffrance vient s'échouer dans les cases de la psychopathologie contemporaine (laquelle se marie fort bien avec les catégories des anthropologies néolibérales. Mais. Chuuuttt. Vais encore me faire taper sur les doigts)
Join us in congratulating #IoFAuthor Michael Richardson on the publication of Nonhuman Witnessing! This radical rethinking of what it means to witness is available from Duke University Press.
www.dukeupress.edu
Duke University Press - Nonhuman Witnessing
Following hot on the heels of last week’s discussion of naïveté in solarpunk, @arielkroon wants to address the idea of hope head-on. “Hope” is a word that gives people warm fuzzy feelings when they read it or use it, but she's not sure that it’s very well understood in this day and age. Because most people equate the concept of hope with that of naïve positivity and intentional ignorance of “reality”.
Solarpunk PresentsHope and Solarpunk — Solarpunk PresentsFollowing hot on the heels of last week’s discussion of naïveté in solarpunk, Ariel wants to address the idea of hope head-on.
“Hope” is a word that gives people warm fuzzy feelings when they read it or use it, but I’m not sure that it’s very well understood in this day and age. Because most people
What are #emotions and #affects from a scientific point of view and how are they studied?
Sociologist Michael Wetzels explains "E" for "Emotions" in our ABC online audio #glossary 
Listen here: https://sfb1265.de/en/glossary/#dhttps://sfb1265.de/en/glossary/#emotions-affects
#spatialresearch #affecttheory #socialscience #wisskomm
Here's a quick image from my current short course that's drawing to the end. I'm using this time as a good foundation for any PhD in Photography, focusing on Psychogeography and Affect Theory.
#CFP for the Journal Romance, Revolution, and Reform on #Feeling in the Nineteenth Century #VictorianStudies #Romanticism #AffectTheory
Today's #Lent Without Borders newsletter features Rwandan doctor Dr Evrard Nahimana and he focuses his #reflection on solidarity in #healthcare:
"I strongly believe that solidarity rather than charity is the antidote to despair..."
Puts #solidarity in a new light and spins it into the realm of #affective responses / mitigation of negative feels. We can expand to #climate #anxiety, #political #despair, overwhelm etc.
#Affect #AffectTheory #ThinkyThoughts #PWRDF #religion @academicchatter
It’s not a car it’s afeeling (and amouthful): “Afeela represents our concept of an interactive relationship where people feel the sensation of intelligent mobility and where mobility can detect and understand people and society by utilizing sensing and (artificial intelligence) technologies”
#AffectTheory
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/01/05/business/sony-honda-ev-afeela-qualcomm/
The Japan TimesSony-Honda EV alliance unveils Afeela brand and Qualcomm partnershipThe first model under the Afeela brand is expected to be delivered in 2026 in North America and will be based on a prototype debuted at CES in Las Vegas.
Was writing out the six books to get to know me and realized that I was listing all the books that had a deep formative impact on me growing up. That's a different post. Adult!me has been/is imaginatively shaped by:
1. The Broken Earth trilogy
2. Lord of the Rings & Silmarillion
3. Oryx and Crake
4. Moon of the Crusted Snow
5. Cruel Optimism
6. New York 2140
Yes, one's a theory text and there are a few trilogies but I stand by it.