Gregory J. Seigworth is Professor of Communication and Theatre at Millersville University.

Carolyn Pedwell is Professor of Cultural Studies and Media at the University of Kent.

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: A Shimmer of Inventories / Gregory J. Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell 1
Part One. Tensions, In Solution
1. The Elements of Affect Theories / Derek P. McCormack 63
2. Ambiguous Affect: Excitements That Make the Self / Susanna Paasonen 85
3. Tomkins in Tension / Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson 103
4. Affect and Affirmation / Tyrone S. Palmer 122
5. Unfuckology: Affectability, Temporality, and Unleashing the Sex/Gender Binary / Kyla Schuller 141
Part Two. Minor Feelings and the Sensorial Possibilities of Form
6. Minor Feelings and the Affective Life of Race / Ann Cvetkovich 161
7. Resisting the Enclosure of Trans Affective Commons / Hil Malatino 179
8. Too Thick Love, or Bearing the Unbearable / Rizvana Bradley 191
9. Migration: An Intimacy / Omar Kasmani 214
Part Three. Unlearning and the Conditions of Arrival
10. Unlearning Affect / M. Gail Hamner 233
11. Why This? Affective Pedagogy in the Wake / Nathan Snaza 255
12. The Feeling of Knowing Music / Dylan Robinson and Patrick Nickleson 273
Part Four. The Matter of Experience, or, Reminding Consciousness of Its Necessary Modesty
13. Nonconscious Affect: Cognitive, Embodied, or Nonbifurcated Experience? / Tony D. Sampson 295
14. Catch an Incline: The Impersonality of the Minor / Erin Manning 315
15. Emotions and Affects of Convolution / Lisa Blackman 326
16. Haunting Voices: Affective Atmospheres as Transtemporal Contact / Cecilia Macón 347
Part Five. A Living Laboratory: Glitching the Affective Reproduction of the Social
17. The Affective Reproduction of Capital: Two Returns to Spinoza / Jason Read 367
18. Algorithmic Governance and Racializing Affect / Ezekiel Dixon-Román 384
19. Dividual Economies, of Data, of Flesh / Jasbir K. Puar 406
20. Algorithmic Trauma / Michael Richardson 423
Coda 447
A Note / Kathleen Stewart 449
Poisonality / Lauren Berlant 451
Contributors 465
Index 471