Gregory J Seigworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory J Seigworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory J |
| FAMILY NAME | Seigworth |
| SIGNATURE | SEIGWORTH G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Millersville University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 656 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
All That Is Solid Melts Into Aerial Karate: Environmentality, Strange Intimacy, and the Banal Nonconscious
‘There is No Direct Evidence of Anything’: Mediation in Lauren Berlant and Raymond Williams
In this essay, we track back and forth between Lauren Berlant’s and Raymond Williams’ work to assemble a purposefully compact genealogy of mediation that also pays attention to how mediation intersects with and often redraws many taken-for-granted understandings of affect, ideology, aesthetics and materialism. We explore how, for Berlant and Williams, mediation requires a suspension or dislodging of direct cause and effect relations in favour of …
Cultural Studies: Theorizing Politics, Politicizing Theory
Rethinking everyday life: And Then Nothing Turns Itself Inside Out
Issue 2-3 (2004) includes articles on rethinking everyday life, the myth of everyday life, the persistence of everyday, everyday tragedy and creation, time and space in everyday life, everyday utopianism, profane illuminations, a different life - looking at Barthes and Foucault, rountine and ambiguity, shame, prescences, a mundane voice, limitations; and consumption of digital commodities in everyday life to name a few
Like a Refrain
Why are you here? I mean, what brought you here? To this very moment? To this page? These words?More importantly, what have you carried with you?I don’t mean to be nosy. But I am kind of curious ab
Everyday Debt and Credit
Lived relations to credit and debt can steadily sink into the everyday in ways that are often missed in analyses that attend to the more immediately visible and eventful aspects of financial existence. How might one address those less remarked-upon, extra-‘ordinary’ lived moments of credit and debt: moments that can come, when all is added up, to say much more about the weight of the day-to-day and, thus, offer – by their very intimacy – the sure…
Reading Lauren Berlant Writing
Lauren Berlant's work offers a model for approaching the intertwined tasks of theorizing and writing: delightfully excessive at the level of sentence construction, deliberately flattening and de-dramatizing at the level of critique. This has the effect of calling a body into new modes of attention: to hums, to incoherence and ambivalence, to history's coming-into- and falling-away-from forms and genres. In Berlant, everything circulates, sticks, …
Mobile Affects, Open Secrets, and Global Illiquidity: Pockets, Pools, and Plasma
This article will take up Deleuze and Guattari's allusive yet insightful writings on 'the secret' by considering the secret across three intermingling registers or modulations: as content (secret), as form (secrecy), and as expression (secretion). Setting the secret in relation to evolving modes of technological mediation and sociality as respectively pocket, pooling, and plasma, the article works through a trio of examples in order to understand…
Maps and Legends
The Affect Theory Reader
This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect—those visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing that can serve to drive us toward movement, thought, and ever-changing forms of relation. As Lauren Berlant explores “cruel optimism,” Brian Massumi theorizes the affective logic of public threat…
Beyond Belief
Cultural Studies and Gilles Deleuze
From affection to soul
Rethinking everyday life: And then nothing turns itself inside out
The contingencies and permeabilities and rhythms of everyday life make it notoriously difficult to pin down in any determinant way. Hence, everyday life places unique demands upon critical practice and conceptualization. In following one potential angle of approach, this essay looks at the influence that philosopher Gottfried Leibniz played in the thinking of sociologist and everyday life philosopher Henri Lefebvre. Lefebvre's theory of moments a…
Banality for Cultural Studies
In her 1990 essay, 'Banality in Cultural Studies,' Meaghan Morris raises very serious concerns about the relatively unexamined role that banality plays in cultural studies' work. Taking up her challenge, this essay endeavors to unlock some of the ways that banality might be, as Morris suggests, 'empowering' and 'enabling' for cultural studies and, thus, not merely banality as something that is left behind after it has been exorcised or redeemed i…
Deleuze and Guattari in Cultural Studies
Des chercheurs en sciences sociales et humaines ont engage activement leurs recherches a la suite des travaux de Deleuze et Guattari. L'impact de ces derniers sur les etudes culturelles merite d'etre evalue, notamment la place de l'utilisation de la philosophie critique dans les etudes culturelles et les effets des travaux philosophiques dans le choix des objets de recherche en anthropologie et sociologie culturelles et dans leurs resultats
The Affect Theory Reader
This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect—those visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing that can serve to drive us toward movement, thought, and ever-changing forms of relation. As Lauren Berlant explores “cruel optimism,” Brian Massumi theorizes the affective logic of public threat…
Rethinking everyday life: And then nothing turns itself inside out
The contingencies and permeabilities and rhythms of everyday life make it notoriously difficult to pin down in any determinant way. Hence, everyday life places unique demands upon critical practice and conceptualization. In following one potential angle of approach, this essay looks at the influence that philosopher Gottfried Leibniz played in the thinking of sociologist and everyday life philosopher Henri Lefebvre. Lefebvre's theory of moments a…
Mobile Affects, Open Secrets, and Global Illiquidity: Pockets, Pools, and Plasma
This article will take up Deleuze and Guattari's allusive yet insightful writings on 'the secret' by considering the secret across three intermingling registers or modulations: as content (secret), as form (secrecy), and as expression (secretion). Setting the secret in relation to evolving modes of technological mediation and sociality as respectively pocket, pooling, and plasma, the article works through a trio of examples in order to understand…
Maps and Legends
Reading Lauren Berlant Writing
Lauren Berlant's work offers a model for approaching the intertwined tasks of theorizing and writing: delightfully excessive at the level of sentence construction, deliberately flattening and de-dramatizing at the level of critique. This has the effect of calling a body into new modes of attention: to hums, to incoherence and ambivalence, to history's coming-into- and falling-away-from forms and genres. In Berlant, everything circulates, sticks, …
Banality for Cultural Studies
In her 1990 essay, 'Banality in Cultural Studies,' Meaghan Morris raises very serious concerns about the relatively unexamined role that banality plays in cultural studies' work. Taking up her challenge, this essay endeavors to unlock some of the ways that banality might be, as Morris suggests, 'empowering' and 'enabling' for cultural studies and, thus, not merely banality as something that is left behind after it has been exorcised or redeemed i…
Deleuze and Guattari in Cultural Studies
Des chercheurs en sciences sociales et humaines ont engage activement leurs recherches a la suite des travaux de Deleuze et Guattari. L'impact de ces derniers sur les etudes culturelles merite d'etre evalue, notamment la place de l'utilisation de la philosophie critique dans les etudes culturelles et les effets des travaux philosophiques dans le choix des objets de recherche en anthropologie et sociologie culturelles et dans leurs resultats
Rethinking everyday life: And then nothing turns itself inside out
The contingencies and permeabilities and rhythms of everyday life make it notoriously difficult to pin down in any determinant way. Hence, everyday life places unique demands upon critical practice and conceptualization. In following one potential angle of approach, this essay looks at the influence that philosopher Gottfried Leibniz played in the thinking of sociologist and everyday life philosopher Henri Lefebvre. Lefebvre's theory of moments a…
From affection to soul
Cultural Studies and Gilles Deleuze
The Affect Theory Reader
This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect—those visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing that can serve to drive us toward movement, thought, and ever-changing forms of relation. As Lauren Berlant explores “cruel optimism,” Brian Massumi theorizes the affective logic of public threat…
Beyond Belief
Maps and Legends
Reading Lauren Berlant Writing
Lauren Berlant's work offers a model for approaching the intertwined tasks of theorizing and writing: delightfully excessive at the level of sentence construction, deliberately flattening and de-dramatizing at the level of critique. This has the effect of calling a body into new modes of attention: to hums, to incoherence and ambivalence, to history's coming-into- and falling-away-from forms and genres. In Berlant, everything circulates, sticks, …
Mobile Affects, Open Secrets, and Global Illiquidity: Pockets, Pools, and Plasma
This article will take up Deleuze and Guattari's allusive yet insightful writings on 'the secret' by considering the secret across three intermingling registers or modulations: as content (secret), as form (secrecy), and as expression (secretion). Setting the secret in relation to evolving modes of technological mediation and sociality as respectively pocket, pooling, and plasma, the article works through a trio of examples in order to understand…
Everyday Debt and Credit
Lived relations to credit and debt can steadily sink into the everyday in ways that are often missed in analyses that attend to the more immediately visible and eventful aspects of financial existence. How might one address those less remarked-upon, extra-‘ordinary’ lived moments of credit and debt: moments that can come, when all is added up, to say much more about the weight of the day-to-day and, thus, offer – by their very intimacy – the sure…
Like a Refrain
Why are you here? I mean, what brought you here? To this very moment? To this page? These words?More importantly, what have you carried with you?I don’t mean to be nosy. But I am kind of curious ab
Cultural Studies: Theorizing Politics, Politicizing Theory
Rethinking everyday life: And Then Nothing Turns Itself Inside Out
Issue 2-3 (2004) includes articles on rethinking everyday life, the myth of everyday life, the persistence of everyday, everyday tragedy and creation, time and space in everyday life, everyday utopianism, profane illuminations, a different life - looking at Barthes and Foucault, rountine and ambiguity, shame, prescences, a mundane voice, limitations; and consumption of digital commodities in everyday life to name a few
‘There is No Direct Evidence of Anything’: Mediation in Lauren Berlant and Raymond Williams
In this essay, we track back and forth between Lauren Berlant’s and Raymond Williams’ work to assemble a purposefully compact genealogy of mediation that also pays attention to how mediation intersects with and often redraws many taken-for-granted understandings of affect, ideology, aesthetics and materialism. We explore how, for Berlant and Williams, mediation requires a suspension or dislodging of direct cause and effect relations in favour of …
All That Is Solid Melts Into Aerial Karate: Environmentality, Strange Intimacy, and the Banal Nonconscious
Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 works)