The Affect Theory Reader II: Worldings, Tensions, Futures, edited by Gregory J. Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell for Duke UP, is just out. Quite the whopper, with contributions from Lauren Berlant, Kathleen Stewart, Lisa Blackman, Ann Cvetkovich, Jasbir K. Puar, Erin Manning Adam Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson, and a whole bunch of others. My piece, titled “Ambiguous affect: excitements that make the self” makes an argument for the critical edge of ambiguity in the context of data culture aiming to aggregate and analyse feeling similarly to any other user data. Writing it, I got very stuck at one point and Greg and Carolyn exemplified academic generosity in helping me become un-stuck. Kudos.
Susanna Paasonen 