Ali Lara
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Lara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Lara |
| SIGNATURE | LARA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Comunicación Afectiva Bio-Mediada. Cuerpo, Colonización y Morenitúd
En este texto llamo comunicación afectiva bio-mediada a la articulación de recursos orgánicos de procesamiento y respuesta de información implicados en procesos materiales que conectan cuerpos humanos. En la primera sección me concentro en las capacidades comunicativas de los cuerpos expresadas a través de la sugestión, la mimesis y el contagio en sus diversas modalidades; discuto los linajes teóricos de estos conceptos y los enmarco como formas …
Mapping Affect Studies
This editorial for the special issue Mapping Affect Studies, I briefly introduce the relevance to explore the intersections between affect studies and other relevant fields for social sciences and humanities. To create a frame to explore such intersections, I explore the affective turn in relation to its epistemological/ontological assumptions, its methodological challenges, and the politics of the affective turn. Then, I offer some notes on two …
Affective modulation in positive psychology’s regime of happiness
Over the last decade, positive psychology has reified happiness as the key to achieving an understanding of human psychological experience and development. According to positive psychology, happiness can be understood as a measurable object of self-cultivation and psychological enhancement. This conceptualization has provoked multiple critiques, focusing on the power effects invested in these psychological discourses, with a special emphasis on t…
Affect and subjectivity
Wine's time
Affect, Heat and Tacos. A Speculative Account of Thermoception
Current affective approaches in the experience of heat or thermoception focus on the capacity of control and regulation of temperature by means of consciously driven physical activity of the human body. With this paper, I suggest that thermoception is a complex process whose explanation requires considering events of production of heat that are not registered by conscious activity and that do not even appear in the strata of the organic body. In …
Teorías afectivas vintage
The 'Affective Turn' has generated a change in the production of knowledge based on certain philosophical trends recognized as 'process philosophies'.Giles Deleuze, Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead are some exponents of those philosophies that have strongly influenced over the affect studies within social sciences.Their thinking has been even a condition of possibility for the current 'Affective Turn'.I will start this paper by arguing th…
Emotions and Social Sciences in 20th century
The Affective Turn is an innovative movement that is transforming the production of knowledge based on the study of affect and emotion. To understand the current role of emotions, we proposed a 'prequel. Telling what happened with emotions within the social sciences before the Affective Turn, and before the twentieth century. In this work we explain the present from the past, we tell the story before The History, we pay a debt to a previous work:…
Ciencia, Teoría Social y Cuerpo en el Giro Afectivo
El llamado 'Giro Afectivo' ha generado articulaciones entre ciertos aportes de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades -a los que aquí llamaremos «teoría(s) social(es)»- y algunas expresiones de las ciencias naturales o duras, -a las que aquí llamaremos «ciencia(s)»-. El argumento de este artículo es que dichos re-encuentros entre «ciencia» y «teoría social» ocurren de tres formas distintas en el marco de los estudios contemporáneos del afecto. T…
The Affective Turn
In the last decade studies on affect and emotions have become relevant in the social sciences. This is not just a fad guideline, but instead a simultaneous reader of public life changes and subjective experience, from which it is also being transformed the knowledge production. Such a trend has been known as 'The Affective Turn' within the Anglophone Academy. Here we will translate it as 'El Giro Afectivo'. This turn, so far, has not dabbled in t…
The Affective Turn
In the last decade studies on affect and emotions have become relevant in the social sciences. This is not just a fad guideline, but instead a simultaneous reader of public life changes and subjective experience, from which it is also being transformed the knowledge production. Such a trend has been known as 'The Affective Turn' within the Anglophone Academy. Here we will translate it as 'El Giro Afectivo'. This turn, so far, has not dabbled in t…
Affect and subjectivity
Affect, Heat and Tacos. A Speculative Account of Thermoception
Current affective approaches in the experience of heat or thermoception focus on the capacity of control and regulation of temperature by means of consciously driven physical activity of the human body. With this paper, I suggest that thermoception is a complex process whose explanation requires considering events of production of heat that are not registered by conscious activity and that do not even appear in the strata of the organic body. In …
Teorías afectivas vintage
The 'Affective Turn' has generated a change in the production of knowledge based on certain philosophical trends recognized as 'process philosophies'.Giles Deleuze, Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead are some exponents of those philosophies that have strongly influenced over the affect studies within social sciences.Their thinking has been even a condition of possibility for the current 'Affective Turn'.I will start this paper by arguing th…
Wine's time
The Affective Turn
In the last decade studies on affect and emotions have become relevant in the social sciences. This is not just a fad guideline, but instead a simultaneous reader of public life changes and subjective experience, from which it is also being transformed the knowledge production. Such a trend has been known as 'The Affective Turn' within the Anglophone Academy. Here we will translate it as 'El Giro Afectivo'. This turn, so far, has not dabbled in t…
Emotions and Social Sciences in 20th century
The Affective Turn is an innovative movement that is transforming the production of knowledge based on the study of affect and emotion. To understand the current role of emotions, we proposed a 'prequel. Telling what happened with emotions within the social sciences before the Affective Turn, and before the twentieth century. In this work we explain the present from the past, we tell the story before The History, we pay a debt to a previous work:…
Ciencia, Teoría Social y Cuerpo en el Giro Afectivo
El llamado 'Giro Afectivo' ha generado articulaciones entre ciertos aportes de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades -a los que aquí llamaremos «teoría(s) social(es)»- y algunas expresiones de las ciencias naturales o duras, -a las que aquí llamaremos «ciencia(s)»-. El argumento de este artículo es que dichos re-encuentros entre «ciencia» y «teoría social» ocurren de tres formas distintas en el marco de los estudios contemporáneos del afecto. T…
Affect, Heat and Tacos. A Speculative Account of Thermoception
Current affective approaches in the experience of heat or thermoception focus on the capacity of control and regulation of temperature by means of consciously driven physical activity of the human body. With this paper, I suggest that thermoception is a complex process whose explanation requires considering events of production of heat that are not registered by conscious activity and that do not even appear in the strata of the organic body. In …
Teorías afectivas vintage
The 'Affective Turn' has generated a change in the production of knowledge based on certain philosophical trends recognized as 'process philosophies'.Giles Deleuze, Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead are some exponents of those philosophies that have strongly influenced over the affect studies within social sciences.Their thinking has been even a condition of possibility for the current 'Affective Turn'.I will start this paper by arguing th…
Affect and subjectivity
Wine's time
Affective modulation in positive psychology’s regime of happiness
Over the last decade, positive psychology has reified happiness as the key to achieving an understanding of human psychological experience and development. According to positive psychology, happiness can be understood as a measurable object of self-cultivation and psychological enhancement. This conceptualization has provoked multiple critiques, focusing on the power effects invested in these psychological discourses, with a special emphasis on t…
Mapping Affect Studies
This editorial for the special issue Mapping Affect Studies, I briefly introduce the relevance to explore the intersections between affect studies and other relevant fields for social sciences and humanities. To create a frame to explore such intersections, I explore the affective turn in relation to its epistemological/ontological assumptions, its methodological challenges, and the politics of the affective turn. Then, I offer some notes on two …
Comunicación Afectiva Bio-Mediada. Cuerpo, Colonización y Morenitúd
En este texto llamo comunicación afectiva bio-mediada a la articulación de recursos orgánicos de procesamiento y respuesta de información implicados en procesos materiales que conectan cuerpos humanos. En la primera sección me concentro en las capacidades comunicativas de los cuerpos expresadas a través de la sugestión, la mimesis y el contagio en sus diversas modalidades; discuto los linajes teóricos de estos conceptos y los enmarco como formas …
Epistemology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Affect (linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)