Ordinary? Affects? Swimming with Kathleen Stewart and Others against the Tide Race of Representation and the Heresies of Names | Zendy

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Ordinary? Affects? Swimming with Kathleen Stewart and Others against the Tide Race of Representation and the Heresies of Names

Author(s) -

Ken Gale

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

departures in critical qualitative research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111

H-Index - 2

eISSN - 2333-9497

pISSN - 2333-9489

DOI - 10.1525/dcqr.2016.5.4.48

Subject(s) - temptation , reading (process) , representation (politics) , heresy , race (biology) , affect (linguistics) , identification (biology) , sociology , psychology , history , psychoanalysis , aesthetics , gender studies , social psychology , art , law , communication , politics , political science , botany , biology

This essay describes instances in the rhythmic play with affect in the reading of and performances with Kathleen Stewart9s Ordinary Affects. It offers an engagement with the work that both troubles and is troubled. It celebrates this engagement and delights in the opportunity to read, read around, and read again and again words that flee from identification and representation and come to life in moments of tears, smiles, and writings living in the temptation and allure of the unknown. This was written with a visit to Edinburgh in mind and Robert Frank9s The Americans, alongside Stewart9s Ordinary Affects in my shoulder bag.

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