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2017 | VOL. 1, Nº. 1 CAPACIOUS JOURNAL FOR EMERGING AFFECT INQUIRY 2017 | VOL. 1, Nº. 1 CAPACIOUS JOURNAL FOR EMERGING AFFECT INQUIRY Vol. 1 No. 1 Capacious: Journal for Emerging Afect Inquiry is an open access journal and all content is licensed Capacious under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). ISBN-13: 978-1547053117 ISBN-10: 1547053119 capaciousjournal.com You are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. 2017 | Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 1 (1) Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry is an open access, peer-reviewed, international journal that is, first and foremost, dedicated to the publication of writings and similar creative works on affect by degree-seeking students (Masters, PhD, brilliant undergraduates) across any and all academic disciplines. Secondarily, the Editorial team journal also welcomes contributions from early-career researchers, recent post-graduates, those approaching their study of affect independent of academia (by choice or not), and, on occasion, an established scholar with an ‘emerging’ idea that opens up new avenues for affect inquiry. The principal aim of Capacious is to ‘make room’ for a wide diversity of approaches and emerging voices CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF to engage with ongoing conversations in and around affect studies. Gregory J. Seigworth This journal will champion work that resists: Millersville University Managing Editor [email protected] • the critical ossification of affect inquiry into rigid theoretical postures Mathew Arthur • the same dreary citational genealogies • any too assured reiteration of disciplinary Vancouver School of Theology orthodoxies [email protected] The journal will always encourage the energies and enthusiasms, the fresh perspectives and provocations ASSOCIATE EDITORS that younger scholars so often bring to bear on affect within and across unique and sometimes divergent Wendy J. Truran fields of intellectual endeavor. Capacious seeks to avoid issuing formal ‘calls for papers’ and ‘special University of Illinois, theme issues.’ Submissions to this journal are accepted Urbana-Champaign at anytime and are welcome to pursue any and all topic [email protected] areas or approaches relating to affect. Bryan G. Behrenshausen Our not-so-secret wish is that essays and issues will forever remain capacious and rangy: emerging from Red Hat various disciplines and conceptual [t]angles. Indeed, our [email protected] aim for every journal issue would be that its collected essays not really coalesce all that much, but rather rub up against one another unexpectedly or shoot past each other without ever touching on quite the same disciplinary procedures, theoretical presuppositions or subject matter. Capacious shall always endeavor to promote diverse bloom-spaces for affect’s study over the dulling hum of any specific orthodoxy. From our own editorial practices down through the interstices of this journal’s contents, the Capacious ethos is most thoroughly engaged by those critical-affective undertakings that find ways of ‘making room.’ Gregory J. Seigworth Mathew Arthur July 2017 Editorial board Ben Anderson Ben Highmore Natasha Schüll Durham University University of Sussex New York University Meera Atkinson Tero Karppi Kyla Schuller University of Technology Sydney University of Toronto Rutgers University Joshua Trey Barnett Anu Koivunen Hasana Sharp University of Minnesota, Duluth Stockholm University McGill University Lauren Berlant Ali Lara Steven Shaviro University of Chicago The City University of New York Wayne State University Lone Bertelsen Mona Mannevuo Chad Shomura University of New South Wales University of Turku University of Colorado, Denver Lisa Marie Blackman Erin Manning Eliza Steinbock Goldsmiths, University of London Concordia University Leiden University Casey Boyle Belén Martin-Lucas Elizabeth Stephens University of Texas at Austin University of Vigo Southern Cross University Jack Bratich Brian Massumi Kathleen Stewart Rutgers University University of Montreal University of Texas at Austin Sarah Cefai Shaka McGlotten Kristin Swenson University of Surrey State University of New York, Purchase Butler University Rebecca Coleman Andrew Murphie Marie Thompson Goldsmiths, University of London University of New South Wales Lincoln University Ann Cvetkovich Jussi Parikka Milla Tiainen University of Texas at Austin University of Southampton University of Helsinki Joe Deville Susanna Paasonen Virginia Villamediana Lancaster University University of Turku FLASCO Jennifer Fisher Carolyn Pedwell Isabel Waidner York University University of Kent Roehampton University Radhika Gajjala John Protevi Julie Wilson Bowling Green State University Louisiana State University Allegheny College Jeremy Gilbert Jasbir Puar Emily Chivers Yochim University of East London Rutgers University Allegheny College Melissa Gregg Andrej Radman Intel Corporation University of Delft Lawrence Grossberg Jason Read University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Southern Maine Richard Grusin Jenny Rice University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee University of Kentucky M. Gail Hamner Michael Richardson Syracuse University University of New South Wales Alison Hearn Tony Sampson University of Western Ontario University of East London Anna Catherine Donovan Schaefer Hickey-Moody University of Pennsylvania The University of Sydney CAPACIOUS 2017 | Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 1 (1) Table of contents INTRODUCTION ARTICLE i Capaciousness 57 Do You Want Vaporwave, or Do You Gregory J. Seigworth Want the Truth?: Cognitive Mapping of Late Capitalist Afect in the Virtual ARTICLE Lifeworld of Vaporwave Alican Koc 1 Casino Light Joey Russo INTERSTICE INTERSTICE 78 Gayl Jones, Barricaded Feeling 12 Forgotten Rituals of Yearning and Unstately Black Life Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko Sarah Jane Cervenak Attempting the Embrace nos 22 & 24 Claire Paugam ARTICLE 83 Coding Intensive Movement with ARTICLE Technologies of Visibility: Alien Afects Michael Lechuga 19 Extraordinary Happenings and Ordinary Afects Sabrina Lilleby INTERSTICE 98 Strange Air Mathew Arthur INTERSTICE 29 Feeling Poetry Mercy Romero ARTICLE 103 When Dust Gets in Your Eyes: ARTICLE Researching the Taboo Fiona Murray 35 On Manga, Mimetics and the Feeling of (Reading a) Language: Toward a INTERSTICE Situated Translational Practice and Gretchen Jude 117 Thimble Fingers Feminist Hygiene Kay Gordon INTERSTICE and 52 Flowers A Tiny Library AFTERWORD Ben Highmore 120 Everything Initiates Katie Stewart Blood of My Blood, Claire Giblin, 2006 Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40” 2017 | Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 1 (1) CAPACIOUS Capaciousness Gregory J. Seigworth MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY Afect is rangy. That’s a given. No surprise then: diferent disciplines and angles of academic inquiry will take afect (and afects) up in subtle and often dramatically diferent ways – hooray! Hence, it is not uncommon then that these disciplines and angles will often fnd themselves engaged in lively, sometimes unexpected, conversations around both traditionally cherished and newly inspired points of consonance and dissonance – more hooray! Crucially, what ‘works’ – or doesn’t work – within, say, one explanatory-exculpatory framework might fnd experien- tial-experimental purchase in another framework of inquiry. And, yes, sometimes conficts arise within the self-same framework (see, for instance, psychology): hello age-old internecine battles over the reach/over-reach and sense of modesty/ immodesty conferred upon diferent criteria for valuing advancements in the hu- manities and social sciences. Without a doubt though, the very ranginess of afect acts as a substantial source of these intra-, inter- and cross-disciplinary tensions. Given this, it is worth trying to fnd ways – when possible – to make these shimmering, perhaps spikey, moments of disciplinary interface into something that is illuminatingly-mutually productive and not talking-past-each-other into a combative void. But having said that, there is sometimes nothing quite like an invigorating debate around those procedures and processes and problematics that have come to animate and sustain a particular zone of recognizable inquiry: whether a discipline, a feld, a practice, etc. Ultimately, the point is not to dissolve tensions by imagining that afect study will somehow magically turn into some kind of overarching über-discipline (as if!) or, even more basically, into a single multi-discipline-straddling methodology – because that ain’t happening. Ever. ii Capaciousness Perhaps the key question for afect studies when it comes to such relatively pesky issues as disciplinarity is merely this: how might any specifcally-angled engage- ment with ‘afect’ precipitate a re-imagining of the thresholds and continually shifting weight-bearing presuppositions / procedures / objects / relations that give unique texture, shape & rhythm to any discipline’s sense of capaciousness? How far might a given set of knowledge-practices and theories stretch at their boundaries and yet remain recognizably, albeit elastically, ‘within the true’ of their own singular historically-derived sets of practices

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