Cultural theory as Mood Work

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20187486
AutoresC Pedwell (0000-0003-4651-5766, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen82
Número82
Páginas47-63
Fecha de publicación2014-10-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew Formations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0950-2378 • E-ISSN: 1741-0789
EditorialLawrence and Wishart (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3898/newf.82.03.2014
OpenAlexW2037529322
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas10

In staging an encounter between Sedgwick's discussion of reparation, Spivak's analysis of translation, and critical scholarship on mood, this essay considers how we might understand contemporary cultural theory as a form of 'mood work' that is at once discursive and material, textual and affective, political and aesthetic. In particular, I am interested in how thinking reparation, translation and mood together might open up different ways of conceptualising and negotiating the affective 'double binds' central to both critical thought and socio-political relations at the current conjuncture. As Sedgwick and Spivak each show us, I will argue, tarrying with contradiction and ambivalence is the mood work that cultural theory must continue to pursue, both in order to understand the material implications of our own emotional investments in intellectual production and to appreciate the complex ways in which power operates within the structures of feeling of late liberalism

Epistemology · Mood · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Engineering · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology