On being affected

Feeling in the folding of multiple catastrophes

Bibliographic Data

ID18948748
AuthorsAndrew Murphie (0000-0002-1593-4151, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume32
Issue1
Pages18-42
Publication date2018-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09502386.2017.1394340
OpenAlexW2775736784
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited16

How possible is it for a life of ongoing feeling to hold, given the world’s current becomings? Much of this article will consider three of the most pervasive of the current disruptions as disruptions of living and feeling: climate change, social change, and, in more detail, what I will call a ‘third media revolution’. All three of these disruptions (and many others) are themselves multiple. They all fold through each other. Living and feeling thus find themselves in the midst of catastrophic multiplicity. This catastrophic multiplicity haunts much of what’s going on. Questions concerning what can be felt within this folding of catastrophes into each other are important contemporary questions. Feeling itself – what it is, what it does, and what the future of feeling might be – has become both a field of struggle, and a complex and open-ended question. A secondary set of questions here will concern the future of studies in relation to these questions of living and feeling – of Cultural Studies, Media Studies, disciplinarity in general, and finally ‘study’, as discussed by Moten and Harney (2013. The undercommons. New York: Minor Compositions)

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Feeling · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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