[...]sumi'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


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


="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> article ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">book (more rewarded in the humanities)

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


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 that ‘="trms">technologies of the self’ designed to work on our ="trms">embodied being can help bring about.”



enterprise of theorizing ="trms">affect ='lgc'>--Elias='lgc'>='lgc'>-->

(1) ideologically driven by an attempt to reverse an ="trms">imagined poststructura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list theoretical hegemony ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> conscious turn from rational ="trms">methods ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*asignifying transcendence='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-="ppl">Massumi's ="trms">affect='lgc'>: a="trms">social virtual potential (='lgc'>=/= actualizes) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">affect='lgc'>: unformed ='and'>& unstructured (potential='lgc'>: transmitable ='lgc'>+ ="trms">socially powerful) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= undefinable ='and'>& unknowable  ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= unanalyzable ='and'>& unpre="trms">dictable ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- not usable as a theoretical concept
="ppl">Massumi (moving away from ="trms">linguistic towards t) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affect becomes ethereal abstraction (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">historical ="trms">materiality) removed from the grasp of critical assessment
feeling ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> personal ='and'>& biographical
emotions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social
="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> prepersonal (non-conscious experience of intensity)

(2) florid and convoluted use of ="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fail to eschew obfuscation (without it there is not so much to say)
="ppl">Massumi='lgc'>: “thought strikes like lightning, with sheering ="trms">ontogenic force. It is felt.” ='lgc'><='lgc'>--Elias='lgc'>-- meaningless ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor

='thdf'>the notion of precognitive ="trms">affective event
="lsts lst1">•do nothing to help one understand the ="trms">nature of conscious, felt, enacted emotion ='lgc'>+ its ="trms">social ramifications
="lsts lst1">•provides no rubric through which one can engage in comparative analysis (or informed discussion)



(Brennan) ="trms">affect='lgc'>: physiological in effect, ="trms">social in o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin

="large lg1" stl="font-size:120%"> (Grossberg) ="trms">affect='lgc'>: to locate human beings in their environment (why ideology is only effective some of the time='qstn'>? quotidien='lgc'> = pleasure ='lgc'>+ ideology) ='strcls'>*it is in the ="trms">affect (="trms">affective life) that people struggle to care about something, find the energy to survive, enact their projects and possibilities='strcls'>*
ideology ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•="trms">affective intensities
="lsts lst1">•="trms">affective investments

(Hennessey) ='strcls'>*="trms">affect-culture='lgc'>: trans="trms">mission of sensation and cognitive emotion through cultural practices='strcls'>* (="trms">materially shaped by ="trms">social ="trms">networks, circulating of natives, they work with ='and'>& against structured ="trms">relationships, can operate intuitively or oblique)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]sense='lgc'>: obvious knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> awareness of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right ='and'>& wrong='lgc'>] (='lgc'>=/= cognitive or learned knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***meaning-making through sense ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ideology='strcls'>***

(Reddy) emotion='lgc'>: range of loosely connected thought ="trms">material ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when activated it exceeds attention's capacity to ="trms">translate it to action/talk
(emotive='lgc'>:) emotional regime='lgc'>: how public emotional acts and ='strcls'>*emotional standards='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[go to ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> soup opera ="trms">integrating emotional eco="trms">system='lgc'>] help to shape the lives of individuals
="trms">affect='lgc'>: explain (="trms">historical) events that elude (political, economical) explanation

='strcls'>*emotion exists in its expression and description='strcls'>* (spoken, ="trms">written, bodily enacted, visually re="trms">presented, etc.)


...emotion of “i am scared” in an early ="trms">modern persian miniature painting



in pre="trms">modern texts
emotion is more prescriptive='lgc'>: how it should be enacted and experienced (='lgc'>=/= descriptive) emotion are evoked='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. through teleologically constructed sensory regime
="lstsrd">2. through reflective/contemplative practices

="lsts lst1">•kindi ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how colors and combinations could elicit ="trms">specific emotions
="lsts lst1">•haytham ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> visual factors that make up beauty
="lsts lst1">•farabi ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impact of musical notes on human mood
="lsts lst1">•button ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian texts ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">specific ways in which a worshipper was expected to react upon seeing an icon of relic (crying, rolling on the ground, rubbing, caressing, etc.)
="lsts lst2">◦biruni ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> if uneducated Muslims were ="trms">presented with a picture of prophet or ka'ba, their not in looking at the thing would bring them to kiss the picture or rub their cheeks against it and to roll themselves in the first before it


Leys's shame ='lgc'>=/= guilt
guilt='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. ="trms">mimetic='lgc'>: victim identifies with the aggressor ='lgc'>+ accepts the ="trms">situation by not distinguishing belief ='lgc'>=/= behavior ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*guilt='strcls'>*
="lstsrd">2. anti="trms">mimetic='lgc'>: victim identifies with fellow victims ='lgc'>+ might imitate the aggressor only as a survival mechanism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> preserve a sense of self ='lgc'>+ keep the atrocities external to herself ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘victim ='lgc'>=/= perpetrator’ that can be held in ="trms">memory without losing one's sense of self and victimhood ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (awareness of being observed by others in one's abject state of victimhood ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) ='strcls'>*shame='strcls'>*

Leys ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (problem of shift from guilt to) shame='lgc'>: deprives one from ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility


='lgc'>=/= muslim-majority ="trms">society (use of shame in critical ways)


='strcls'>**performative ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=/& constructed ="trms">nature of emotions='strcls'>**

="prgrph">-in my youth in ="nms">iran (middle class) the context of singing together آواز in small gatherings was a context of expressing emotions within groups (a form of ='strcls'>*="trms">networked living='strcls'>*) that give voice to ="trms">specific emotion (grief, sadness, ="trms">love, heartache, etc.)
='lgc'>[i always felt outside of it='lgc'>]

public expression of feelings ='lgc'>--as="trms">sociate='lgc'>='lgc'>--> weakness ='and'>& sexuality
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> everyday life denial of emotions (of jealousy, desire, heartache)

(="trms">sociologically)
='strcls'>*something is performed='lgc'> = something cannot be addressed informally='strcls'>* ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- for example emotions


sharm
sharmamdegi
haya
aberu
gheirat
nang
namus
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emotion words for honor and shame (shared between pakistan and ="nms">iran, used with meanings that overlap and inconsistent)

honor selfsubsistent male
honor related to women
notions of virtue
notions of shyness

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> gheirat غیرت ='lgc'>: an emotional alarm ="trms">system ='lgc'>[for one's personal image (aberu آبرو), family, ="trms">religion, country='lgc'>]
gheirat ="trms">specifies one's appropriate reactions to the particular acts of the other ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in the form of emotions='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger, hatred, jealousy


(Elias’ problematic and useful de="trms">finition of) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">affect='lgc'>: perceivable ="trms">measurable describable effect of emotional events and experiences, what is felt ='lgc'>+ what is emoted at an individual and collective level, (enacted ='lgc'>+ perceived) ‘happening’ of the human experience (='lgc'>=/= undefined protoevent)
="trms">affect='lgc'>: a way in which one knows an experience is occurring ='lgc'>+ a way in which one reacts to an experience ='lgc'>==shape='lgc'>='lgc'>==> future human experience

="lstsrd">1. enactment (performativity) of emotion is inseparable from its experience
="lstsrd">2. emotions, enjoying words, emotion events cannot be comprehended apart from the ="trms">sociopolitical context in which they occur (emotion act ='lgc'>~/='qstn'>?= emotion evoked)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> somatic activity (crying) ='lgc'>==make='lgc'>='lgc'>==> emotions (sadness)

(in islam) happiness ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> virtue
(robust genre of ="trms">literature) marvels and ="trms">bestiary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">wonder at ="trms">natural ='and'>& manufactured ="trms">wonders of the ="trms">world (pyramids ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= mortality) “='lgc'>==encourage='lgc'>='lgc'>==>” contemplation of God's creative powers

(in sufism) tension between good and bad feelings (ugly, outlaw emotions...) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> progress (spiritual advancement)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (sufi) scandalous behavior='lgc'>: performative form of cultivating negative emotions in oneself and others

emotional regime
="trms">ecological ="trms">phenomenology
emotional habitus

habitus='lgc'> = ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]mood='lgc'>: collective feeling ='lgc'>--="ppl">Bourdieu='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*making and using moods have to be ="trms">integral part of (the goal of) any ="trms">sociopolitical process='strcls'>* (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Foad, ='at'>@="frds">Sina)
(='strcls'>**collective action if impossible if people are not in the mood='strcls'>**)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:157%">
='strcls'>*educational ="trms">material (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ideological ="trms">material) ='lgc'>: ="trms">integrated attitude toward the ="trms">world='strcls'>*

regulatory forces of ="trms">society con[...]