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Great to get this in the post today, it actually feels like the book is finished once you get the hard copies! 1/n
Big thanks to @Ravn_Signe and @geoffreme who reviewed the whole manuscript, making the book much better. I even cut out a whole chapter upon realising that I was writing the introduction to what might be the next book in the middle of this one, which is apparently a thing
The book draws out the affect aspects in what I think are already affect laden concepts in Bourdieu – cultural capital, illusio, distinction, and especially symbolic violence. It also argues that consideration of affect benefits from thinking with a theory of practice
It proposes that habitus is one’s history rolled up into an affective ball of immanent dispositions, an assemblage of embodied affective charges. Fields have their own affective atmospheres. Illusio can help understand how we are cathected and attached to some things over others
Distinction is an affective relation, where sticky affinities in the forms of tastes, morals and values are performed, reflexively or not. Relations of distinction produces feelings and emotions across an affective spectrum from superiority to disgust.
Symbolic violence is an affective violence: it delivers emotional cuts and bruises, which then marks one’s immanent wellspring of dispositions accordingly. This is especially so where people refused what they are already refused because ‘that’s not for the likes of us’
Conceptually the book is particularly indebted to Jennifer Mason’s work on affinities, Sara Ahmed on the cultural politics of emotion, Beverley Skeggs on class, affect and value, and Margaret Wetherell’s take on affect theory
@Ash_Barnwell's paper on Durkheim as an affect theorist was a real inspiration that really kicked the work on the book along.
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