Jan Slaby is Professor of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests include philosophy of mind, social philosophy, philosophy of science, and, in particular, affect and emotion theory with a focus on subject formation, social interaction and political affect. With Suparna Choudhury, he was co-editor of Critical Neuroscience (2012). With Christian von Scheve, he co-edited Affective Societies: Key Concepts (2019).

Christian von Scheve is Professor of Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and Research Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on the Sociology of Affect and Emotion, Cultural Sociology, Economic Sociology, and Social Psychology. With Mikko Salmela, he was co-editor of Collective Emotions (2013). With Jan Slaby, he co-edited Affective Societies: Key Concepts (2019).

Tamar Blickstein is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the CRC Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin in Germany, trained in social and cultural anthropology. She is an affiliated researcher at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where she recently completed a Marie Sodowska Curie Fellowship on the affective experience of deforestation in South America. She has researched and published on colonialism, memory, racialization, and ecology in Europe and Latin America. She wrote the chapter "Affects of Racialization" for the first Affective Societies: Key Concepts (2019) volume.

Polina Aronson is a Sociologist and Journalist working at the CRC Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin in Germany, as a public relations officer and an editor. Her research interests include post-socialist emotional regimes, cultural translations of the therapeutic turn, and, especially, transformations of ideas about love and intimacy. Polina's journalistic publications appeared in international and independent Russian-language media, such as Aeon, Deutsche Welle, openDemocracy, and many others.

1. Affect and emotion: Social theory for the 21st century; Part I: Governance, Reflexivity, Contestation; 2. Emotional reflexivity; 3. Contested emotions; 4. Emotional politics; 5. Outrage politics; 6. Affective mobilization; 7. Reading relations; Part II: Senses, Belonging, Care; 8. Olfactory affect; 9. Sensory care; 10. Affective treatment; 11. Home feelings; Part III: Institutions, Economy, Media; 12. Institutional affect; 13. Property as affect; 14. Market affects; 15. Affective media; 16. Infrastructures of feeling; 17. Affective archive; Part IV: Echoes, Hauntings, Prefigurations; 18. Affective contemporaneity; 19. Haunting; 20. Prefigurative aesthetics; 21. Colonialism as affect; Part V: Friction, Stasis, Suppression; 22. Affective engagements; 23. Affects of critique; 24. Affective stasis; 25. Unfeeling; Part VI: Perspectives; 26. Affect as method: Against the numb view of embodiment; 27. Studying (neo-)emotion practices in affect and emotion research; 28. Qadma': Ecology and the ends of affect