m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

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Navigating Movements: An Interview with Brian Massumi
I’ve been reading Massumi and struggling with how capitalism connects with a theory of bodily movement. For some reason, I just wasn’t connecting things. But, now that I am making progress on that front, I have the desire to talk about lots of things. [...]

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The question I asked from last class is still on my mind — Who said that when there are more people in a room that “get it,” then it is more likely that the ones who haven’t gotten it yet will get it quicker? According to the footnote attributed to Guattari, “The [...]

Reading Massumi, Parables of the Virtual is not easy, but boy (or girl) what joy I feel when I get to some good bits. The words just sound good together like the chatter between old friends who are wearing new clothes (or hats even!).
I enjoyed reading the part at the end of page 16 [...]

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So much of what Boler says in Feeling Power speaks to me that I am having trouble responding. So, as a blogger is wont to do, I decided to see what other people are saying. I googled Boler and affect and found this lovely collection of essays on philosophy and pedagogy, [...]

Moiseyenko, Olena. “Education and Social Cohesion: Higher Education.” Peabody Journal of Education, 80(4), 89-104. Erlbaum, 2005.
Moiseyenko provides an overview (“preliminary understanding”) of how universities can promote social cohesion, mainly by curriculum content, university culture, academic fairness and integrity, and community involvement.
I wanted this article to do more work than it was [...]

Mirchandani, Kiran. “Challenging racial silences in studies of emotion work: contributions from anti-racist feminist theory” June 2003.
one-sentence summary: studies of emotional work or emotional labour have ignored the aspects of gender, race, and class and consequently, the results obtained are too narrow in describing the actual character of emotional work, and emotional labour [...]

Full Catastrophe Living
Emotions and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
You’re emotional. Deal with it.
Your career may depend on your right brain

Ferguson, Ann. Blood at the Root. “Sex/affective production.” London: Pandora, 1989. 77-99.
one-sentence summary: Ferguson sets forth a theory of sex/affective production in order to show how male dominance is supported and produced through homosocial and heterosexual energies and activities.
Keywords: sex/affective production, sex/affective energy, social energy, male dominance, patriarchy, affective labour
77: describes [...]

I have noticed in myself an unusual occurrence. When I read texts before they are due to be discussed in class, I don’t get as much out of them as when I go back after class and review them again. I think I am having an emotional reaction to Reading for Meaning In [...]

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Burke prioritizes rhetoric as identification because he sees identification as a more general term than Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric as persuasion. In setting up this distinction, Burke wants to discover a theory of human relations based on people’s motives and in the process reclaim rhetoric from the human sciences, which he sees [...]