2019 | VOL. 1, Nº. 4 CAPACIOUS JOURNAL FOR EMERGING AFFECT INQUIRY 2019 | VOL. 1, Nº. 4 CAPACIOUS JOURNAL FOR EMERGING AFFECT INQUIRY Capacious: Journal for Emerging Afect Inquiry Vol. 1 No. 4 Capacious is an open access journal and all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). ISBN-13: 978-1083127464 ISBN-10: 1083127464 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. The Radical Open Access Collective is a community of scholar-led, not-for-proft presses, journals, and other open access projects. Now consisting of more than 50 members, we promote a progressive vision for open publishing in the humanities and social sciences. What we have in common is an understanding of open access as being characterised by a spirit of ongoing creative experimentation. 2019 | Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 1 (4) Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry is an EDITORIAL open access, peer-reviewed, international journal that is, frst and foremost, dedicated to the publication of writings and similar creative works on affect by degree-seeking TEAM students (Masters, PhD, brilliant undergraduates) across any and all academic disciplines. Secondarily, the 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 CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF inquiry. The principal aim of Capacious is to ‘make room’ for a wide diversity of approaches and emerging voices Gregory J. Seigworth to engage with ongoing conversations in and around affect studies. Millersville University Managing Editor This journal will champion work that resists: [email protected] • the critical ossifcation of affect inquiry into rigid Mathew Arthur theoretical postures • the same dreary citational genealogies Simon Fraser University [email protected] • any too assured reiteration of disciplinary orthodoxies The journal will always encourage the energies and EDITORS enthusiasms, the fresh perspectives and provocations that younger scholars so often bring to bear on affect Wendy J. Truran within and across unique and sometimes divergent fields of intellectual endeavor. Capacious seeks to Georgia Institute of Technology [email protected] avoid issuing formal ‘calls for papers’ and ‘special theme issues.’ Submissions to this journal are accepted Bryan G. Behrenshausen at anytime and are welcome to pursue any and all topic areas or approaches relating to affect. Red Hat [email protected] Our not-so-secret wish is that essays and issues will forever remain capacious and rangy: emerging from various disciplines and conceptual [t]angles. Indeed, our 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 specifc 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 fnd ways of ‘making room.’ EDITORIAL BOARD Ben Anderson Anna Hickey-Moody Tony Sampson Durham University RMIT University University of East London Meera Atkinson Ben Highmore Donovan Schaefer University of Sydney University of Sussex University of Pennsylvania Joshua Trey Barnett Deborah Kapchan Natasha Schüll University of Minnesota, Duluth New York University New York University Lauren Berlant Tero Karppi Kyla Schuller University of Chicago University of Toronto Rutgers University Lone Bertelsen Anu Koivunen Janae Sholtz Scroggs University of New South Wales Stockholm University Alvernia University Lisa Marie Blackman Ali Lara Hasana Sharp Goldsmiths, University of London The City University of New York McGill University Casey Boyle Jennifer LeMesurier Steven Shaviro University of Texas at Austin Colgate University Wayne State University Jack Bratich Mona Mannevuo Chad Shomura Rutgers University University of Turku University of Colorado, Denver Sarah Cefai Erin Manning Nathan Snaza Goldsmiths, University of London Concordia University University of Richmond Ruth Charnock Belén Martin-Lucas Eliza Steinbock Lincoln University University of Vigo Leiden University Rebecca Coleman Brian Massumi Elizabeth Stephens Goldsmiths, University of London University of Montreal University of Queensland Ann Cvetkovich Shaka McGlotten Kathleen Stewart University of Texas at Austin State University of New York, Purchase University of Texas at Austin Joe Deville Andrew Murphie Kristin Swenson Lancaster University University of New South Wales Butler University Jennifer Fisher Jussi Parikka Fredrika Thelandersson York University University of Southampton Rutgers University Jonas Fritsch Susanna Paasonen Marie Thompson Aarhus University University of Turku Lincoln University Radhika Gajjala Carolyn Pedwell Milla Tiainen Bowling Green State University University of Kent University of Helsinki Jeremy Gilbert John Protevi Virginia Villamediana University of East London Louisiana State University FLASCO Melissa Gregg Jasbir Puar Isabel Waidner Intel Corporation Rutgers University Roehampton University Lawrence Grossberg Andrej Radman Elizabeth Wilson University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Delft Emory University Richard Grusin Jason Read Julie Wilson University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee University of Southern Maine Allegheny College M. Gail Hamner Jenny Rice Emily Chivers Yochim Syracuse University University of Kentucky Allegheny College Alison Hearn Michael Richardson University of Western Ontario University of New South Wales CAPACIOUS 2019 | Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 1 (4) TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION INTERSTICE i Afective Politics and Involuntary 94 Bad Teacher [work-in-progress]. Autoethnography: Backlashes Ruth CharnocK Against #Metoo Camilla Møhring Reestorf ARTICLE 110 Necrointimacies: Afect and ARTICLE The Virtual Reverberations of 2 Sero Sanctitas: Violent Intimacy Afective Conversion(s) as Nael Bhanji Efective Self-Invention Mari E. Ramler REVIEW 138 Meera Atkinson’s Poetics of INTERSTICE Transgenerational Trauma 18 To Dream as You Ana Dragojlovic Mandy-Suzanne Wong ARTICLE ARTICLE 142 Philosophizing in Plato’s Cave: 34 Thin Attachments: Writing Berlin Hélène Cixous’s Afective Writing in Scenes of Daily Loves Eret Talviste Omar Kasmani AFTERWORD INTERSTICE 162 That Sinking Feeling 56 Talkin’ Transindividuation Dana Luciano and Collectivity Jason Read and Jeremy Gilbert ARTICLE 80 Reconfguring Afected Labor as a Site of Resistance Alexia Cameron i Playing the role of a witch in La Notte delle Streghe, Miles Gerety, 2007 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) CAPACIOUS 2019 | Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 1 (4) AFFECTIVE POLITICS AND INVOLUNTARY AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: BACKLASHES AGAINST METOO Camilla Møhring Reestorff UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS, DENMARK Introduction One of the challenges that you sometimes face as an afect scholar is the need to identify your own afects in relation to the material that you study. Sometimes your research even works as a catalyst for media events, folding you into afective intensifcations being modulated through a range of interfaces. Intensifcations that you could hardly have foreseen. Obviously, this ‘becoming your data’ poses a methodological challenge, and requires a keen eye to the ways in which afect is governed. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) capaciousjournal.com | DOI: https://doi.org/10.22387/CAP2019.32 iii Affective Politics and Involuntary Autoethnography: Backlashes Against #metoo In the beginning of 2019, I published a research communication piece about the Danish news media’s coverage of #metoo on Facebook (Reestorf 2019). Even though the piece was published on a scholarly website called videnskab.dk (trans- lation: science.dK), I quicKly received hostile and dehumanizing messages. The experience reminded me that sometimes, as researchers, we are forced to conduct an involuntary but necessary autoethnography. When you are drawn into an in- tense media debate, as I was, you are simply forced to consider the way in which you are afected and not least being framed and resituated in relation to your data. In the meshwork of afects that emerge in these situations it is crucial to fnd ways to rearticulate your research and insist that it is placed in the context for which it was intended. More specifcally, I had to fnd a way to make categorical mapping and autoethnography merge in order to study the ways in which afect is intensifed and governed. In the following, I frst introduce the methodology ‘categorical mapping’ and the key fndings from my study of the Danish media’s coverage of #metoo on FacebooK. Then, I turn to the analysis and suggest that, what I will call, posthu- manitarian journalism is