Non-Representational Theory: Space | politics | affect
action (Rogers 2003; Beirne 198 7 ). The entities that Tarde is dealing with are not people, but innovations, understood as quan ...
multiplication of collectives, and forming ‘landing strips’ (Latour 2005) for new ones.^16 Most particularly, Tarde’s work sugge ...
as they do non-conscious perception, dissociation, suggestion and suggestibility, and social influence as forming a part of a st ...
mesmerism’s afterlife helped shape the understanding of mass media in the twentieth century as agents of mass persuasion that so ...
characteristic of social acts is that they are imposed from the outside, by obligation. To make this claim is to recognise as so ...
Sloterdijk suggests, on the basis of this analysis, that what is needed is an ‘air- conditioning project’ that can sweep through ...
workings of a range of phenomena, including ideology, governance, self-cultivation, and even resistance but often in highly spec ...
However, it is also clear that certain technological advances, and especially those to do with mobile telephony and the web, are ...
More generally, human imitative skills may be regarded as part of a widespread human capacity for mimesis. Mimetic capacities ev ...
this vulnerability and how it wraps back into mind-reading. The primary role in the theorization of embodiment across a number o ...
available to reflection (Wegner 2002; T.D. Wilson 2002). These automatisms may often feel like wilful action but they are not an ...
is, they are powered by automatisms: the body is the medium for the transmission of force but without any conscious volition. Un ...
action’ (Deleuze 1988a: 28). But this is to overlook a feature of embodiment which is crucial: effort. It takes effort for the b ...
In other words, what I am trying to point to is the rise of more and more affective techniques, premised on making appeals to th ...
about 20 per cent of global foreign assets (Ginsborg 2005). Yet, taken singly, these corporations are remarkably vulnerable enti ...
uncoincident with the constant barrage of publications and surveys that insist that this is the case. Fifth, and finally, corpor ...
attraction, and the like. Yet, it is difficult to reconcile such accounts with close ethnographies of consumers which show that ...
through being continuously updated, but they are tied closely to events. It is no surprise then that, at this point in time, eve ...
through the use of affective cues and appeals which are often founded in spatial arrangement; think only of a book like Thomas W ...
beyond these kinds of show-business. In effect, it is based on the five processes of comprehensive commodification that I outlin ...
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