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Acknowledgments ix

An Inventory of Shimmers / Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg 1

One. Impingements

1. Happy Objects / Sara Ahmed 29

2. The Future Birth of the Affective Fact: The Political Ontology of Threat / Brian Massumi 52

3. Writing Shame / Elspeth Probyn 71

Two. Aesthetics and the Everyday

4. Cruel Optimism / Lauren Berlant 93

5. Bitter after Taste: Affect, Food, and Social Aesthetics / Ben Highmore 118

An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers: Fèlix Guattari on Affect and the Refrain/ Lone Bertelsen and Andrew Murphie 138

Three. Incorporeal/Inorganic

7. Modulating the Excess of Affect: Morale in a State of "Total War" / Ben Anderson 161

8. After Affect: Sympathy, Synchrony, and Mimetic Communication / Anna Gibbs 186

9. The Affective Turn: Political Economy, Biomedia, and Bodies / Patricia T. Clough 206

Four. Managing Affects

10. Eff the Ineffable: Affect, Somatic Management, and Mental Health Service Users / Steven D. Brown and Ian Tucker 229

11. On Friday Night Drinks: Workplace Affects in the Age of the Cubicle / Melissa Gregg 250

12. Desiring Recognition, Accumulating Affect / Megan Watkins 269

Five. After Affect

13. Understanding the Material Practices of Glamour / Nigel Thrift 289

14. Affect's Future: Rediscovering the Virtual in the Actual / Lawrence Grossberg (An Interview with Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg) 309

Afterword. Worlding Refrains / Kathleen Stewart 339

References 355

Contributors 381

Index 385