Critical Affect

The Politics of Method

By: Ashley Barnwell

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Paperback | 31 January 2022

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A clear-sighted intervention into debates about affect theory and critique

Addresses the important yet overlooked implications for critical methods in influential work on affect, non-representational, and actor-network theories
Situates current debates within enduring ethical discussions about how to represent lived experience
Foregrounds the contemporary, everyday purchase and pragmatic value of critical attention in both popular culture and social contexts
Establishes kinships between the linguistic and ontological turns in theory

Critical Affect explores the emotional complexity of critique and maps out its enduring value for the turn to affect and ontology. Through a series of vivid close readings, Ashley Barnwell shows how suspicion and methods of decoding remain vital to both civic and academic spaces, where concerns about precarity, transparency, and security are commonplace and the question of how we verify the truth is one of the most polarising of our age.

Weaving together both the critical and affective dimensions of 'paranoid reading', Critical Affect opens crucial questions about the ethics of practicing theory and offers a new route into the critical study of affect.

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In Critical Affect: The Politics of Method, Ashley Barnwell challenges the clear-cut separation of critical and affective approaches, examining how longstanding ideas of critique and criticism are applied by the recent wave of affect theory across the social sciences. As much a methodological reflection as a critique of existing literature, Barnwell offers both a meditation on how to read with 'epistemic charity' and a very timely provocation on what it means to be in academia today.--Anna Nguyen, Harvard University "LSE Review of Books"

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