Negative Affect,SCUM, and the Politics of Possibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408994 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Desireé D Rowe (0000-0001-6665-1859) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 176-181 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708619879204 |
| OpenAlex | W2975617115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
Negativity has been widely framed through Edelman's 'no future' orientation. While being productive, this orientation forecloses the potential negativity to foster coalitional alliances. Building off previous works about Valerie Solanas, I turn toward an investigation of the negative affective traces of her SCUM Manifesto to create paths of meaning-making beyond Edelman's accounting. First, I examine how Solanas uses negative affect in her work. Second, I build from contemporary re-framings of negativity to imagine a possible reparative reading of SCUM. I argue that through her use of lived experience-specifically her narratives of violence, SCUM challenges the reader's engagement with negativity. Within SCUM, there is a potential path of meaning-making through Solanas' invocation of her own lived experience
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Art · Epistemology · Invocation · Literature · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Negativity effect · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Communication · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |