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The Felt‐Force of Literacy
Author(s) -
Hollett Ty
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
reading research quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1936-2722
pISSN - 0034-0553
DOI - 10.1002/rrq.374
Subject(s) - garcia , reading (process) , psychology , affect (linguistics) , atmosphere (unit) , visual arts , psychoanalysis , humanities , social psychology , art , linguistics , philosophy , communication , physics , thermodynamics
In this commentary, the author brings together three articles in Reading Research Quarterly ’s special issue on affect theory—Nichols and Coleman; Garcia, Guggenheim, Stamatis, and Dalton; and Burnett and Merchant—under the overarching concepts of atmosphere and mobile architecture. How does one describe the felt‐force of right now, of masks‐ventilators‐fear‐abundanceofcaution‐distance‐anxiety‐Zoom‐school‐Ahmaud‐George‐Breonna‐fire‐rage‐murder‐police?