Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion

PATRICIA TICINETO CLOUGHProfessor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York, USA DEBRA FERREDAYLecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK MELISSA GREGGLecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia LAURA-ZOË HUMPHREYSJoint Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, USA ANGELINA KARPOVICHLecturer in Multimedia and Broadcasting Technology at Brunel University, UK KERSTIN LEDERResearch Associate in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK KARENZA MOORELecturer in Criminology at Lancaster University, UK LUCIANA PARISIConveys the MA Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmith, University of London, UK MICHAELA QADRAROPh.D. student of at the Università degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale', Naples, Italy TOBIAS RAUN Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University, Denmark JULIA RONEResearcher at the Department of Theory and History of Culture, University of Sofia, Bulgaria EUGÉNIE SHINKLESenior Lecturer in Photographic Theory and Criticism at the University of Westminster, UK MIHIRINI SIRISENAPh.D. candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction: Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures; A.Kuntsman PART I: AFFECT IN THE AGE OF THE DIGITAL War By Other Means: What Difference Does the Graphic(s) Make?; P.Ticineto Clough Nanoarchitectures: The Synthetic Design of Extensions and Thoughts; L.Parisi WikiLeaks Affects: Ideology, Conflict and the Revolutionary Virtual; A.Karatzogianni PART II: SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS OF DIGITAL CULTURES Affect, Fantasy and Digital Cultures; D.Ferreday Videogames and the Digital Sublime; E.Shinkle Digital Affect, Clubbing and Club Drug Cultures: Reflection, Anticipation, Counter-Reaction; K.Moore Touching Tales: Emotion in Digital Object Memories; K.Leder & A.Karpovich PART III: VIRTUAL INTIMACIES White Collar Intimacy; M.Gregg DIY Therapy: Exploring Affective Self-representations in Trans Video Blogs on YouTube; T.Raun Virtually Yours: Reflecting on the Place of Mobile Phones in Romantic Relationships; M.Sirisena PART IV: FEELINGS, TECHNOLOGIES, POLITICS Symptomologies of the State: Cuba's 'Email War' and the Paranoid Public Sphere; L.Humphreys The Seducer's Net: Internet, Politics and Seduction; J.Rone Digital Aesthetics and Affective Politics: Isaac Julien's Audio-Visual Installations; M.Quadraro Epilogue: The Futures of the Affective Digital; A.Karatzogianni Index