Terrorist Assemblages brilliantly illuminates the imbrication of race and affect. While not dispensing with the complex histories that have shaped racial categories, Puar’s book draws our attention to race as an affective landscape—pulling materiality, discourse, and emotions into the fray … Continue reading “Race, Affect, and Assemblage: Toward Brown Jouissance”
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Conversation: Lauren Berlant with Dana Luciano
lauren berlantDana Luciano: I’d like to start by pressing further on your comment (Cruel Optimism 21) about the need to invent new genres for theorizing, genres that can more effectively register, assess and imagine forms of response to the “new ordinary” … Continue reading “Conversation: Lauren Berlant with Dana Luciano”