Affected

Author : Teresa Brennan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801471360

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The Transmission of Affect by Teresa Brennan Pdf

The idea that one can soak up someone else's depression or anxiety or sense the tension in a room is familiar. Indeed, phrases that capture this notion abound in the popular vernacular: "negative energy," "dumping," "you could cut the tension with a knife." The Transmission of Affect deals with the belief that the emotions and energies of one person or group can be absorbed by or can enter directly into another. The ability to borrow or share states of mind, once historically and culturally assumed, is now pathologized, as Teresa Brennan shows in relation to affective transfer in psychiatric clinics and the prevalence of psychogenic illness in contemporary life. To neglect the mechanism by which affect is transmitted, the author claims, has serious consequences for science and medical research. Brennan's theory of affect is based on constant communication between individuals and their physical and social environments. Her important book details the relationships among affect, energy, and "new maladies of the soul," including attention deficit disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, codependency, and fibromyalgia.

Author : Jessica Pressman
Publisher : Literature Now
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231195133

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Bookishness by Jessica Pressman Pdf

Jessica Pressman explores the rise of "bookishness" as an identity and an aesthetic strategy that proliferates from store-window décor to experimental writing. Ranging from literature to kitsch objects, stop-motion animation films to book design, she considers the multivalent meanings of books in contemporary culture.

Author : Kathleen Stewart
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822390404

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Ordinary Affects by Kathleen Stewart Pdf

Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart ponders how ordinary impacts create the subject as a capacity to affect and be affected. In a series of brief vignettes combining storytelling, close ethnographic detail, and critical analysis, Stewart relates the intensities and banalities of common experiences and strange encounters, half-spied scenes and the lingering resonance of passing events. While most of the instances rendered are from Stewart’s own life, she writes in the third person in order to reflect on how intimate experiences of emotion, the body, other people, and time inextricably link us to the outside world. Stewart refrains from positing an overarching system—whether it’s called globalization or neoliberalism or capitalism—to describe the ways that economic, political, and social forces shape individual lives. Instead, she begins with the disparate, fragmented, and seemingly inconsequential experiences of everyday life to bring attention to the ordinary as an integral site of cultural politics. Ordinary affect, she insists, is registered in its particularities, yet it connects people and creates common experiences that shape public feeling. Through this anecdotal history—one that poetically ponders the extremes of the ordinary and portrays the dense network of social and personal connections that constitute a life—Stewart asserts the necessity of attending to the fleeting and changeable aspects of existence in order to recognize the complex personal and social dynamics of the political world.

Author : Patricia A. Dalton
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781437930184

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Recovery Act: Factors Affecting the Department of Energy's Program Implementation by Patricia A. Dalton Pdf

The Amer. Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) -- initially estimated to cost $787 billion in spending and tax provisions -- aims to promote economic recovery, make investments, and minimize or avoid reductions in state and local government services. The Recovery Act provided the Dept. of Energy (DoE) more than $43.2 billion, including $36.7 billion for projects and activities and $6.5 billion in borrowing authority, in areas such as energy efficiency and renewable energy, nuclear waste clean-up, and electric grid modernization. This testimony discusses: (1) the extent to which DoE has obligated and spent its Recovery Act funds; and (2) the factors that have affected DoE's ability to select and start Recovery Act projects. Illus.

Author : Lucie Podszun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783531940793

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Does Development Aid Affect Conflict Ripeness? by Lucie Podszun Pdf

Many developing countries find themselves in seemingly intractable internal conflicts, hindering them from moving on into a more stable, secure and wealthy environment. It seems that underdevelopment and conflict go hand in hand. Underdevelopment most often implies large streams of development aid channeled into countries at war. The work evaluates to what extent an increase in development aid affects conflict ripeness. The research shows that the effect is ambivalent: it depends on the conditions of provision whether it is positive or negative. In general, an ‘increase in development aid’ decreases the intensity of one of the ingredients to conflict ripeness: the mutually hurting stalemate. However, if embedded into a smart strategy, an ‘increase in development aid’ enhances the second ingredient to conflict ripeness: the sense of a way out. By that it counterbalances the negative effect and thus fosters the phase of ripeness, creating an ideal starting position for a subsequent peace process.

Author : Mr.Robert C. Effros
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1557755035

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Current Legal Issues Affecting Central Banks, Volume IV. by Mr.Robert C. Effros Pdf

This volume, edited by Robert C. Effros, surveys developments at international financial institutions, regional developments affecting central banks, the progress of the European Union countries toward monetary union and a unified banking market, the effect of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization on banking services, and the implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement for central banks. Other topics discussed include banking regulation and reform in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, countries of the former Soviet Union, and China; banking supervision; the role of deposit insurance; bankruptcy policy; derivatives; securitization; payments systems; securities transfers; and capital standards for market risk. Appendices reproduce relevant legal documentation.

Author : Myriam Denov,Bree Akesson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231539678

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Children Affected by Armed Conflict by Myriam Denov,Bree Akesson Pdf

Societal turbulence, state collapse, religious and ethnic conflict, poverty, hunger, and social exclusion all underlie children's involvement in armed conflict. Drawing from empirical studies in eleven conflict-ridden countries, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Colombia, Uganda, Palestine, Somalia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and South Sudan, Children Affected by Armed Conflict crosses cultures and contexts to capture a range of perspectives on the realities of armed conflict and its aftermath for children. Children Affected by Armed Conflict upends traditional views by emphasizing the experience of girls as well as boys, the unique social and contextual backgrounds of war-affected children, and the resilience and agency such children often display. Including children who are victims of, participants in, and witnesses to armed conflict in their analyses, the contributors to this volume highlight innovative methodologies that directly involve war-affected children in the research process. This validates the perspectives of children and ensures more effective outcomes in postwar reintegration and recovery. Deficits-based models do not account for the realities many war-affected children face. The alternative approaches presented in this edited collection—which acknowledge the realities of both trauma and resilience—aim to generate more effective policies and intervention strategies in the face of a growing global public health crisis.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Public Health Approaches to Reduce Vision Impairment and Promote Eye Health
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309439985

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Making Eye Health a Population Health Imperative by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Public Health Approaches to Reduce Vision Impairment and Promote Eye Health Pdf

The ability to see deeply affects how human beings perceive and interpret the world around them. For most people, eyesight is part of everyday communication, social activities, educational and professional pursuits, the care of others, and the maintenance of personal health, independence, and mobility. Functioning eyes and vision system can reduce an adult's risk of chronic health conditions, death, falls and injuries, social isolation, depression, and other psychological problems. In children, properly maintained eye and vision health contributes to a child's social development, academic achievement, and better health across the lifespan. The public generally recognizes its reliance on sight and fears its loss, but emphasis on eye and vision health, in general, has not been integrated into daily life to the same extent as other health promotion activities, such as teeth brushing; hand washing; physical and mental exercise; and various injury prevention behaviors. A larger population health approach is needed to engage a wide range of stakeholders in coordinated efforts that can sustain the scope of behavior change. The shaping of socioeconomic environments can eventually lead to new social norms that promote eye and vision health. Making Eye Health a Population Health Imperative: Vision for Tomorrow proposes a new population-centered framework to guide action and coordination among various, and sometimes competing, stakeholders in pursuit of improved eye and vision health and health equity in the United States. Building on the momentum of previous public health efforts, this report also introduces a model for action that highlights different levels of prevention activities across a range of stakeholders and provides specific examples of how population health strategies can be translated into cohesive areas for action at federal, state, and local levels.

Author : Tonya K. Davidson,Ondine Park,Rob Shields
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554583126

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Ecologies of Affect by Tonya K. Davidson,Ondine Park,Rob Shields Pdf

Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, and hope in forming the identity and tone of places. The critical intervention this collection of essays makes is an active, consistent engagement with the virtualities that produce and refract our idealized attachments to place. Contributors show how place images, and attempts to build communities, are, rather than abstractions, fundamentally tied to and revolve around such intangibles. We understand nostalgia, desire, and hope as virtual; that is, even though they are not material, they are nevertheless real and must be accounted for. In this book, the authors take up affect, emotion, and emplacement and consider them in relation to one another and how they work to produce and are produced by certain temporal and spatial dimensions. The aim of the book is to inspire readers to consider space and place beyond their material properties and attend to the imaginary places and ideals that underpin and produce material places and social spaces. This collection will be useful to practitioners and students seeking to understand the power of affect and the importance of virtualities within contemporary societies, where intangible goods have taken on an increasing value.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : NYPL:33433031963188

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Code of Federal Regulations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marie-Luise Angerer,Bernd Bösel,Michaela Ott,Moira Gatens
Publisher : Diaphanes
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 3037346698

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Timing of Affect by Marie-Luise Angerer,Bernd Bösel,Michaela Ott,Moira Gatens Pdf

For many years now, the time of affect has been a major issue in the humanities, sciences, art and media. Affect stands here for feelings, emotions, processes of affection, for movements of the bodies, for a missing time with one word: for a broad range of ideas and discursive contexts and histories. "Timing of Affect" assembles contributions from different disciplines from philosophy to film, music, sound, media and art, through to technology, computation and neurology to explore the following temporal aspects of the time of affect(ion): Affect as a capacity of the body as a primary, ontological conjunctive and disjunctive process and anthropological inscription as a zone between a "not yet" and an "always already over" as an anthropogenetic interruption of chains of stimulus and response as the effect of a zone of sensory perception that can be encoded in acts of (self-)activation in the form of feelings as an arena within cultural history for political, media and psycho-pharmacological interventions as a signal and unconscious media grammar as time scale and "out of synch." "Timing of Affect" sets itself the task of showing how these aspects are articulated historically and contemporarily, in and as different forms of discourse and epistemological implications in the current establishment of orders of knowledge, thus intensively scrutinizing the momentum of the affective today. "

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D03560940K

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Government Activities Affecting Small Business, Problems Os Small Business Displacement Under Pprograms of Public Improvement, 2d Report of the Attorney General Pursuant to Section 10(c) of the Small Business Act of 1958, as Amended by United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951003088252A

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Review of Disaster Conditions Affecting Agriculture by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture Pdf

Author : Gregory J. Seigworth,Carolyn Pedwell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478027201

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The Affect Theory Reader 2 by Gregory J. Seigworth,Carolyn Pedwell Pdf

Building on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily taken-for-granted assumptions in affect theory, The Affect Theory Reader 2 extends and challenges how contemporary theories of affect intersect with a wide range of topics and fields that include Black studies, queer and trans theory, Indigenous cosmologies, feminist cultural analysis, psychoanalysis, and media ecologies. It foregrounds vital touchpoints for contemporary studies of affect, from the visceral elements of climate emergency and the sensorial sinews of networked media to the minor feelings entangled with listening, looking, thinking, writing, and teaching otherwise. Tracing affect’s resonances with today’s most critical debates, The Affect Theory Reader 2 will reorient and disorient readers to the past, present, and future potentials of affect theory. Contributors. Lauren Berlant, Lisa Blackman, Rizvana Bradley, Ann Cvetkovich, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román, Adam J. Frank, M. Gail Hamner, Omar Kasmani, Cecilia Macón, Hil Malatino, Erin Manning, Derek P. McCormack, Patrick Nickleson, Susanna Paasonen, Tyrone S. Palmer, Carolyn Pedwell, Jasbir K. Puar, Jason Read, Michael Richardson, Dylan Robinson, Tony D. Sampson, Kyla Schuller, Gregory J. Seigworth, Nathan Snaza, Kathleen Stewart, Elizabeth A. Wilson

Author : Erval Jackson Newcomer,J. M. Dunleavy,Marion Ashton Smith,Robert Jay Marty,Charles A. Rindt,Lacy Porter McColloch,Bernard A. Friedman,John Fedkiw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
ISBN : OSU:32435031273881

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Directory of Professional Workers in State Agricultural Experiment Stations and Other Cooperating State Institutions by Erval Jackson Newcomer,J. M. Dunleavy,Marion Ashton Smith,Robert Jay Marty,Charles A. Rindt,Lacy Porter McColloch,Bernard A. Friedman,John Fedkiw Pdf

Set includes revised editions of some issues.