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[...]cal notions of selfhood in late antiquity (= islam ='lgc'>+ europe) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> study of emotions ='and'>& feelings

="ppl">Platonic ='lgc'>+ Aristotelian ='lgc'>: “emotion='lgc'> = ambivalent urges need to be disciplined and harnessed through some process of education” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> islamic ideas of body ='and'>& mind

favorite emotion (='lgc'>~ ="trms">religious expression ='lgc'>+ motivator) in islam ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ sufism='lgc'>]='lgc'>: ="trms">love ='and'>& virtue ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="trms">interest in hate ='and'>& ="trms">monster='lgc'>]

it was only one and half a century ago that William James argued that human mental states were incapable inseparable from our bodily forms (='lgc'>=/= “mind ='lgc'>=/= body”)


="trms">modern theories of emotion='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">universalism ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- sentimental desire to believe in the essential ="trms">community of all human beings ='lgc'>+ appeal of ="trms">neuro="trms">scientific inquiries into the biological bases of emotions ='lgc'>+ certain ="trms">linguistics theories ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for example (the ="trms">fable of universal emotion) ='strcls'>*fear in the face of the enemy='strcls'>* transcends time and space='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">="trms">social constructivism ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- 80s ="trms">sociology and cultural studies

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> using clinical ="trms">data for humanistic arguments ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- problematic and unpersuasive


='strcls'>*******generation of new knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--approached='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
humanistic ="trms">method (also applies to art='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">authoritative='lgc'>: establishing control over the previous scholarship in the field ='lgc'>+ incremental advancement to collective knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
(='strcls'>*="trms">written as eureka moments of the revelation of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">book='lgc'>: de="trms">finitive work that closes discussion)
='lgc'>=/=
="trms">scientific ="trms">method ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> testing hypothesis, expecting one's own hypothesis to be proven wrong or incomplete in a very short time
(='strcls'>*="trms">written as progress reports on findings in ongoing research='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> article)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:117%"> ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this makes it d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous for humanity scholars to take advantage of ="trms">scientific research

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]emotion
cognitive psychology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> humanistic ='lgc'>+ ="trms">social-="trms">scientific theories of emotions ='lgc'>--promoting='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">fables of)
="lsts lst1">universal basic emotions='lgc'>: happiness, ="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger, disgust, fear, sadness, surprise ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> regardless what these terms might be in other ="trms">languages other than english, or even if there are equivalent concepts='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">emotions do not occur in ="trms">language but are physically manifested in the face ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> micro-expression in business negotiations='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">(the ="trms">fable of) artworks can convey emotions accurately and re="trms">liably across time and culture ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to the ="trms">fable of ='strcls'>*unmediated ="trms">response='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ emotional appeal of “great art"='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">distinguish the essential from the optional, to capture the invariant, to break complex concepts into maximally simple ones ='lgc'>[conceptual primes ='lgc'>+ lexicogrammatical universals='lgc'>] (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- Wierzbicka's NSM)

='lgc'>=/=

="lsts lst1">emotion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Joseph leDoux 1996
="lsts lst1">emotion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Klaus ="ppl">Scherer 1979
="lsts lst1">="trms">affects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari 1980
="lsts lst1">perasaan hati ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> indonasia 1980
="lsts lst1">="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Massumi 2002
="lsts lst1">emozioni ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Cesare Lombroso 1976

="trms">social constructivism approach='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">emotional experience is not precultural but preeminently cultural ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Lutz

="trms">anthropological approach l='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors/words for ="trms">different emotions ='lgc'>--Kovecses='lgc'>='lgc'>--> individuals choose to conceptualize their emotions ="trms">differently within the constraints impressed on them by in universal physiology ='lgc'>{='strcls'>*force='lgc'>: the primary emotional ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor='strcls'>*='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">body-based constructivism

(William Reddy >) emotive='lgc'>: (for example saying “i am happy.”) performative (effects change) ='lgc'>+ constative (describes the ="trms">world)
="lsts lst1">emotive utterance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> getting through of something non="trms">verbal into ="trms">verbal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a person
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--Elias='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">logocentric concept of emotive ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- comes from speech act theory (there is no evidence that thinking and saying out loud “i am happy” have the same effects, or forcing one self to smile)
="lsts lst1">there is no reason to consider one action more or less descriptive than performative than the other ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my whole work has been about arguing the performativity of descriptive acts, there are no descriptions that do not generate emotions='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">lack of ="trms">methodological distinction between (="trms">anthropological) fieldwork ='lgc'>[='lgc'>: subject is changed by the ="trms">presence of rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">historical research
="lsts lst1">problem of ="trms">synchrony in “emotive” ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ignoring ="trms">memory, aspiration (on the ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list of the emotional actor)

emotional states can be evoked or avoided(='qstn'>?)
conditions can be manipulated with the goal of shaping emotions in the future


emotion and its ="trms">affects
="lsts lst1">emotion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> medicated and sustained
="lsts lst1">="trms">affect (a very recent idea) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ephemeral instantaneously rises and dissipates (leaving residual effects)
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a heuristic device (="trms">difference) to highlight ="trms">different kinds of experiences, their perception and impact

="trms">affect is under inquiry in understand='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">customer culture
="lsts lst1">entertainment industry
="lsts lst1">
="lsts lst1">(individual located in larger ="trms">communities)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">affect='lgc'>: ="trms">embodied thought ='lgc'>: culturally and corporealy informed cognition='lgc'> = thoughts ='lgc'>+ apprehension “i am involved”
='lgc'>[emotion='lgc'> = i am involved='lgc'>]

(Elias) arguments in favor of ="trms">affect (="trms">affect-culture)='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. (help us to understand) ="trms">relationship between ='strcls'>*(human) bodies, ="trms">nature, action='strcls'>*
="lstsrd">2. explains cooperative living, sacrifice, generosity, attachment, ="trms">affection (better than theories that focus on economics, politics, power)
="lstsrd">3. critical ="trms">apparatus for gaining knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge from human ="trms">interaction and ="trms">social movements ='lgc'>--understand='lgc'>='lgc'>--> future
(concept of) ="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> productive way of understanding human attitude and behavior

_____________
="trms">affect theory
="lsts lst1">(Spinoza ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) ="ppl">Deleuze's ethnology of bodily capacities ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="ppl">Massumi
="lsts lst1">(="ppl">Darwin ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) Tomkins's psychobiology and ="trms">differential ="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="ppl">Sedgwick

Tomkins
basic ="trms">affect transcend culture
durable and ="trms">socially meaningful

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> ="ppl">Deleuze
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">affect='lgc'> = innateness ='lgc'>+ external stimuli, “entire, vital modulating field of myriad becomings across human and nonhuman”

Spinoza
“no one has yet determined what the body can do”
="lstsrd">1. the body's capacity is not determined by the body alone but that it is amplified and assisted by its external context
="lstsrd">2. even though we might not understand the videos ="trms">nature, we can comprehend how a ="trms">specific body functions in a particular ="trms">social context
="lsts lst1">="trms">affectus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the force of an ="trms">affecting body ='lgc'>=/=
="lsts lst1">="trms">affectio ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impact of an ="trms">affecting body on the one ="trms">affected (='lgc'>==generate='lgc'>='lgc'>==> bodily capacities)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">affect='lgc'>: a ="trms">relational ="trms">phenomena that draws that draws together='lgc'>: a body ='lgc'>+ sentient aspects of the human being inhabiting it ='lgc'>+ ="trms">social context within which that person is embedded

="ppl">Massumi
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> self-professed ="trms">affect theorists)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">affect='lgc'>: essentially bodily, pre-="trms">social (='lgc'>=/= a="trms">social), filled with motion, vibratory motion, resonation, a nonconscious (never-to-be-conscious) automatic remainder
="trms">visceral perception
precognitive ="trms">visceral moment (='lgc'>=/= physical reaction)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> think of ="trms">affect in virtual terms ='lgc'>{virtual='lgc'>: sphere of potential ='lgc'>+ emergent ='lgc'>+ indeterminate tendencies='lgc'>}
='strcls'>***conscious perception='lgc'> = ="trms">narration of ="trms">affect='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[to perceive='lgc'> = to ="trms">narrate your ="trms">affects ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ='at'>#feedback of artwork='lgc'>: actualization of the ="trms">affective event (='qstn'>?can it in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude the ="trms">excess of ="trms">affect, the virtual='qstn'>?), feedback='lgc'>: ="trms">narration of unconscious perception='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--="ppl">Massumi='lgc'>='lgc'>--> outside of this perception is the virtual domain (nonconscious automatic remainder, disconnected from meaning) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->="trms">affect is the whole ="trms">world” (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Massumi's attraction to indeterminacy)
='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affect='lgc'>: the deep ="trms">historical remainder (fossil) of a pre-civilizational (pre-="trms">social) open-ended togetherness (I-am-involved-ness)

Flatley
="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (nonvirtual) they come out unpre="trms">dictability in dreams and physical ="trms">symptoms
(="trms">interaction of) ="trms">affect ='lgc'>+ habit, belief, thought, ideas='lgc'> = emotion

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="trms">neuropolitics='lgc'>: ="trms">neurobiological universals can pre="trms">dictively manifest themselves


article ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">book (more rewarded in the humanities)

...="trms">technical, ="trms">symbolic, ="trms">formula-filled ="trms">language of ="trms">scientific research

="large lg5" stl="font-size:159%">
antirationalism of turn to body in ="trms">affect theory ='lgc'>--Leys='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the claim is that we human beings are corporeal creatures imbued with ="trms">subliminal ="trms">affective intensifies and resonances that so decisively influence it condition our political and other beliefs that that we ignore those ="trms">affective intensities or resonances at our peril='lgc'>--not only because doing so leads us to underestimate the political harm that the deliberate manipulation of our ="trms">affective lives can do but also because we will otherwise miss the='strcls'>*potential for ethical creativity='strcls'>* and transformation t[...]