Alyssa D Niccolini
Biographic Data
| ID | 213008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alyssa D Niccolini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alyssa D |
| FAMILY NAME | Niccolini |
| SIGNATURE | NICCOLINI A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Atmospheres of violence and becoming bad researchers
Atmospheres of violence and becoming bad researcherson the day that Roe v. Wade 1 was overturned, Nancy texted Stephanie, "feels like slow death." the phrase slow death refers to the physical wearing out of a population in a way that points to its deterioration as a defining condition of its experience and historical existence (Berlant, 2011, p. 93).With slow death, lauren Berlant emphasizes the biopolitically shaped "endemics" of illness, the ma…
Mapping the Affective Turn in Education: Theory, Research, and Pedagogies
Feeling Education
The scratch changes the tenor of the space, echoes through bodies, and like a slipped needle on vinyl, cuts momentarily into the flow of the present. Drawing upon the Spinozist-inspired philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, Massumi argues that affects are not “mere” personal feelings but, rather, prepersonal and pre-cognitive intensities that augment and/or diminish a body’s capacity to act. While some contemporary affect scholars do use affect as …
Spinning Yarns: Affective Kinshipping as Posthuman Pedagogy
A ball of yarn unravels in rolls above desks, humming laptops, paper coffee cups, and human bodies. The yarn finds a hand amidst cheers and hoots. The yellow spool swiftly winds around a cookbook a
The Rape Joke: Censorship, Affective Activisms, and Feeling Subjects
This paper follows the affective impact of a story on rape culture in a school magazine in a US high school. Immediately following its publication, the school administrative enacted a policy of prior review on all future publications. The event made waves in US national news and online media and was denounced as an act of censorship and infringement on students’ freedom of expression. In concert with other students and faculty at the school, the …
Algorithmic Noise: Ed Reform 2.0 and Work/Think/Playing With Methods of the Present
As we become more and more algorithmic subjects, algorithms shape the news we access, our political and social views, how and what we buy, as well as the emotional tenor of our lives. Tracking how algorithms work on and with our senses and activate our bodies in different ways requires experimental approaches. To explore affect, algorithms, and method, we work/think/play via two reassemblages of algorithmic tools borrowed from the corporate and a…
Terror(ism) in the classroom: Censorship, affect and uncivil bodies
This paper examines an event in a US secondary classroom where a Muslim student was disciplined for reading lesbian erotica in class. While many students read and exchanged erotica in the school, this student in particular was targeted for a disciplinary hearing. I explore this as an affective event, a moment of sensation and excess, to think about how the taken-for-granted dramas of the classroom might be manifestations of larger scale events an…
Animate affects: Censorship, Reckless Pedagogies, and Beautiful Feelings
This paper argues that affect bears a potent teaching capacity. To do so, it explores the intensities that built around a student-teacher's dismissal from a US school placement. In this incident, the topic of homophobia in a poetry lesson elicited a buzz among students that enacted a pedagogy that exceeded the speaking subject. It was these animating capacities of affect, the author argues, that were deemed particularly threatening by the school.…
Comics as Public Pedagogy: Reading Muslim Masculinities through Muslim Femininities in Ms. Marvel
In this article we examine the production and operation of the character, Kamala Khan, a Muslim American-Pakistani superheroine of the Ms. Marvel comic series, to glean what this reveals about Islam and Muslims, with particular attention to representations of Muslim masculinities. We argue that Ms. Marvel's invitation to visualize Muslim girls as superheroes is framed by a desire to interrupt rampant Islamophobia and xenophobia, yet, in order to …
Reassembling feminism
Straight talk and thick desire in erotica noir: Reworking the textures of sex education in and out of the classroom
Drawing on data from two focus groups with US urban high school students and utilising the theoretical lens of the Affective Turn, this paper seeks to explore the role of erotica noir, a genre of erotic fiction depicting predominantly African American female protagonists, as an unofficial form of sex education circulating in and outside of school. With an intent focus on health, the medicalisation of the body and risk, particularly in relation to…
Spinning Yarns: Affective Kinshipping as Posthuman Pedagogy
A ball of yarn unravels in rolls above desks, humming laptops, paper coffee cups, and human bodies. The yarn finds a hand amidst cheers and hoots. The yellow spool swiftly winds around a cookbook a
Animate affects: Censorship, Reckless Pedagogies, and Beautiful Feelings
This paper argues that affect bears a potent teaching capacity. To do so, it explores the intensities that built around a student-teacher's dismissal from a US school placement. In this incident, the topic of homophobia in a poetry lesson elicited a buzz among students that enacted a pedagogy that exceeded the speaking subject. It was these animating capacities of affect, the author argues, that were deemed particularly threatening by the school.…
Terror(ism) in the classroom: Censorship, affect and uncivil bodies
This paper examines an event in a US secondary classroom where a Muslim student was disciplined for reading lesbian erotica in class. While many students read and exchanged erotica in the school, this student in particular was targeted for a disciplinary hearing. I explore this as an affective event, a moment of sensation and excess, to think about how the taken-for-granted dramas of the classroom might be manifestations of larger scale events an…
Comics as Public Pedagogy: Reading Muslim Masculinities through Muslim Femininities in Ms. Marvel
In this article we examine the production and operation of the character, Kamala Khan, a Muslim American-Pakistani superheroine of the Ms. Marvel comic series, to glean what this reveals about Islam and Muslims, with particular attention to representations of Muslim masculinities. We argue that Ms. Marvel's invitation to visualize Muslim girls as superheroes is framed by a desire to interrupt rampant Islamophobia and xenophobia, yet, in order to …
The Rape Joke: Censorship, Affective Activisms, and Feeling Subjects
This paper follows the affective impact of a story on rape culture in a school magazine in a US high school. Immediately following its publication, the school administrative enacted a policy of prior review on all future publications. The event made waves in US national news and online media and was denounced as an act of censorship and infringement on students’ freedom of expression. In concert with other students and faculty at the school, the …
Algorithmic Noise: Ed Reform 2.0 and Work/Think/Playing With Methods of the Present
As we become more and more algorithmic subjects, algorithms shape the news we access, our political and social views, how and what we buy, as well as the emotional tenor of our lives. Tracking how algorithms work on and with our senses and activate our bodies in different ways requires experimental approaches. To explore affect, algorithms, and method, we work/think/play via two reassemblages of algorithmic tools borrowed from the corporate and a…
Reassembling feminism
Straight talk and thick desire in erotica noir: Reworking the textures of sex education in and out of the classroom
Drawing on data from two focus groups with US urban high school students and utilising the theoretical lens of the Affective Turn, this paper seeks to explore the role of erotica noir, a genre of erotic fiction depicting predominantly African American female protagonists, as an unofficial form of sex education circulating in and outside of school. With an intent focus on health, the medicalisation of the body and risk, particularly in relation to…
Comics as Public Pedagogy: Reading Muslim Masculinities through Muslim Femininities in Ms. Marvel
In this article we examine the production and operation of the character, Kamala Khan, a Muslim American-Pakistani superheroine of the Ms. Marvel comic series, to glean what this reveals about Islam and Muslims, with particular attention to representations of Muslim masculinities. We argue that Ms. Marvel's invitation to visualize Muslim girls as superheroes is framed by a desire to interrupt rampant Islamophobia and xenophobia, yet, in order to …
Reassembling feminism
Terror(ism) in the classroom: Censorship, affect and uncivil bodies
This paper examines an event in a US secondary classroom where a Muslim student was disciplined for reading lesbian erotica in class. While many students read and exchanged erotica in the school, this student in particular was targeted for a disciplinary hearing. I explore this as an affective event, a moment of sensation and excess, to think about how the taken-for-granted dramas of the classroom might be manifestations of larger scale events an…
Animate affects: Censorship, Reckless Pedagogies, and Beautiful Feelings
This paper argues that affect bears a potent teaching capacity. To do so, it explores the intensities that built around a student-teacher's dismissal from a US school placement. In this incident, the topic of homophobia in a poetry lesson elicited a buzz among students that enacted a pedagogy that exceeded the speaking subject. It was these animating capacities of affect, the author argues, that were deemed particularly threatening by the school.…
Spinning Yarns: Affective Kinshipping as Posthuman Pedagogy
A ball of yarn unravels in rolls above desks, humming laptops, paper coffee cups, and human bodies. The yarn finds a hand amidst cheers and hoots. The yellow spool swiftly winds around a cookbook a
The Rape Joke: Censorship, Affective Activisms, and Feeling Subjects
This paper follows the affective impact of a story on rape culture in a school magazine in a US high school. Immediately following its publication, the school administrative enacted a policy of prior review on all future publications. The event made waves in US national news and online media and was denounced as an act of censorship and infringement on students’ freedom of expression. In concert with other students and faculty at the school, the …
Algorithmic Noise: Ed Reform 2.0 and Work/Think/Playing With Methods of the Present
As we become more and more algorithmic subjects, algorithms shape the news we access, our political and social views, how and what we buy, as well as the emotional tenor of our lives. Tracking how algorithms work on and with our senses and activate our bodies in different ways requires experimental approaches. To explore affect, algorithms, and method, we work/think/play via two reassemblages of algorithmic tools borrowed from the corporate and a…
Mapping the Affective Turn in Education: Theory, Research, and Pedagogies
Feeling Education
The scratch changes the tenor of the space, echoes through bodies, and like a slipped needle on vinyl, cuts momentarily into the flow of the present. Drawing upon the Spinozist-inspired philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, Massumi argues that affects are not “mere” personal feelings but, rather, prepersonal and pre-cognitive intensities that augment and/or diminish a body’s capacity to act. While some contemporary affect scholars do use affect as …
Atmospheres of violence and becoming bad researchers
Atmospheres of violence and becoming bad researcherson the day that Roe v. Wade 1 was overturned, Nancy texted Stephanie, "feels like slow death." the phrase slow death refers to the physical wearing out of a population in a way that points to its deterioration as a defining condition of its experience and historical existence (Berlant, 2011, p. 93).With slow death, lauren Berlant emphasizes the biopolitically shaped "endemics" of illness, the ma…
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Feeling (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (4 works) · Affect (linguistics (3 works)