- AutorIn
- Harald Pittel
- Titel
- Feelings without Structure
- Untertitel
- A Cultural Materialist View of Affective Politics
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-211180
- Quellenangabe
- Coils of the serpent - Issue 2, Special issue: The challenge of the new right
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Heft: 2
Seiten: 40-47 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2018
- Abstract (EN)
- The term ‘affective politics’ is sometimes used to dismiss political strategies as being directed merely at affects at the expense of rational analysis (Massumi 2015: 65f). While such uses are meant to criticize certain politics, appeals to the affects – and consequently, forms of propaganda or populism – do not have to be bad at all. The point here is that affects not only play a role for manipulative governments or populist movements, but are a crucial factor for the political in general, which in a post-modern world can no longer be naïvely understood as being grounded in nature or reason (Massumi 2015: VIIIf). So, if politics are always entangled with affects, when do political affects become problematic? I will suggest that cultural materialism offers a few concepts that we can draw on to differentiate acceptable from harmful kinds of affective politics. More specifically, I am going to encourage a new reading of Raymond Williams’ concept of the structure of feeling and the way it is transformed in his later appropriation of Gramsci’s theory of hegemony.
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Politics, Affective, Populism
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 320
- Publizierende Institution
- Universität Leipzig, Leipzig
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-211180
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 17.04.2018
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch