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Amanda Whittaker – In love with Libby (The Statue of Liberty)
Amanda Whittaker, 27, has an unusual condition known as objectum sexuality, which means she falls in love with inanimate objects. The monument is the latest in a long line of objects that Amanda has...
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Jeannette Ginslov: Capturing Affect With a Handful of Techne
On May 14, Jeannette Ginslov gave a Medea Talk about the developmental stages of the AffeXity project, the interdependence of the collaborators, the relational and dynamic formation of technical and...
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The Science of Compassion
ALL the major religions place great importance on compassion. Whether it’s the parable of the good Samaritan in Christianity, Judaism’s “13 attributes of compassion” or the Buddha’s statement that...
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Debating Affect
Let me begin by posing a simple question: Why are so many scholars today in the humanities and social sciences fascinated by the idea of affect? In an obvious sense an answer is not difficult to find;...
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Porno-graphics and porno-tactics: desire, affect and representation in...
Pornography’s inscriptions in representation have troubled feminist writers, who since the 1970s have been critically addressing issues related to the presentation of the female body. Porn, it was...
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