Formations of Feeling, Constellation of Things

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2998081
AutoresB Highmore (0000-0002-7865-5184, University of Sussex, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen22
Número1
Fecha de publicación2016-04-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCultural Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692
EditorialUniversity of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5130/csr.v22i1.4413
OpenAlexW2331925960
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas14

This essay revisits Raymond Williams's notion of 'structures of feeling' with the intention of clarifying what Williams meant by 'feelings', and of exploring the concept's possible range and reach within the study of culture. It recovers the initial anthropological context for the phrase by reconnecting it to the work of Ruth Benedict and Gregory Bateson. It goes on to suggest that while the analysis of 'structures of feeling' has been deployed primarily in studies of literary and filmic culture it might be usefully extended towards the study of more ubiquitous forms of material culture such as clothing, housing, food, furnishings and other material practices of daily living. Indeed it might be one way of explaining how formations of feeling are disseminated, how they suture us to the social world and how feelings are embedded in the accoutrements of domestic, habitual life. The essay argues that by joining together a socially phenomenological interest in the world of things, accompanied by an attention to historically specific moods and atmospheres, 'structures of feelings' can direct analyses towards important mundane cultural phenomena

Aesthetics · Constellation · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Feeling · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology