[ecrea] Transformations issue 31 released - Technoaffect: Bodies, Machines, Media

/Transformations /announces the release of Issue 31

*Technoaffect: Bodies, Machines, Media

*_http://www.transformationsjournal.org/___

The body and affect have always been technological. Technologies of the 
body circulate affect, producing flows and forms of feeling that are 
economically and politically situated. Contemporary digital practices 
are inevitably corporeally enframed, calling upon and creating bodily 
norms. People diversely experience new ‘configurations of bodies, 
technology and matter’ that are accompanied by reworked public feelings 
and structures of feeling. Sticky affects glue together ‘ideas, values 
and objects’ and arrange boundaries between peoples and worlds. All too 
often the resulting inclusions and exclusions reinforce problematic 
structures of domination.  At the same time affective technologies can 
be a site for challenging past marginalisations and reworking 
experiences and understandings of affect, as evidenced by creative and 
scholarly practices in this area.

This special issue of /Transformations/ pays critical attention to the 
circulation of affect by bodily technologies. Demonstrating the 
centrality of affect to the cultural, critical and creative analysis of 
technologies, these papers explore affect’s movement in and through 
virtual reality, artificial intelligence, gaming, disconnection, drones, 
Facebook, blogging, and e-sports.

Issue editors: Erika Kerruish and Rebecca Olive

Papers:

/Susan Kozel, Ruth Gibson, Bruno Martelli/
The Weird Giggle: Attending to Affect in Virtual Reality 
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_01_kozel.pdf>//

/Poppy Wilde/
Avatar affectivity and affection 
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_02_wilde.pdf>//

/Hannah Lammin/
Conversing with Machines: Affective Affinities with Vocal Bodies 
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_03_lammin.pdf>//

/Jenny Sundén/
Queer Disconnections: Affect, Break, and Delay in Digital Connectivity 
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_04_sunden.pdf>

/Michael Richardson/
Drone Capitalism 
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_05_richardson.pdf>

/Zsuzsanna Dominika Ihar/
Friend Requests from the Force: Affective Mimicry, Intimate Imitations 
and a Softened Police Apparatus 
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_06_ihar.pdf>

/Susannah French/
/Musings of an Aspie/: Blogging, Gender and Affect 
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_07_french.pdf>

/Elena Pilipets/
Queer Workings of Digital Affect: The Hypermediated Body of Conchita 
Wurst 
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_08_pilipets.pdf>

/Ben Egliston/
E-sport, phenomenality and affect 
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_09_egliston.pdf>


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