Affective Arrangements and Disclosive Postures

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-196
Author(s):  
Jan Slaby
Keyword(s):  
Affect Studies ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
Affective Intentionality ◽  
Philosophy Of Emotion ◽  
Affective Intensity

In this paper, I explore links between the phenomenology-inspired philosophy of emotion, especially discussions of affective intentionality and situated affectivity, and those strands of work in the field of cultural affect studies that take their inspiration fromSpinoza and Deleuze. As bridges between these fields, I propose the concepts ‘disclosive posture’ and ‘affective arrangement’. ‘Disclosive posture’ condenses insights from phenomenological work on affectivity, especially those pertaining to what Heidegger calls Befindlichkeit. ‘Affective arrangement’ is a descendant of Deleuze and Guattari’s term agencement. It refers to heterogeneous ensembles of elements coalescing into a sphere of heightened affective intensity in a local setting. I develop this notion into a tool for analyzing situated affectivity. As it does not yet figure prominently within debates in the philosophy of emotion, I will outline what is meant by ‘affective arrangement’ in some detail. Throughout, I discuss a productive tension between these two conceptual strands.

Elementary Affective Sharing

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-150
Author(s):  
Henning Nörnberg
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Primitive Form ◽  
Phenomenological Tradition ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
Affective Intentionality ◽  
Elementary Form ◽  
The One ◽  
Central Claim

This paper contributes to the current discussion on collective affective intentionality. Very often, affective sharing is regarded as a special feature ofamore general form of we-intentionality being already in place. In contrast to this view, the paper attempts to explicate a more elementary form of affective sharing that does not simply presuppose other forms of we-intentionality, but amounts to a primitive form of we-intentionality of its own. The account presented here draws on two conceptual tools from the broader phenomenological tradition: prereflective we-intentionality on the one hand and atmospheric perception on the other. The central claim is that some instances of affective we-consciousness mainly emerge on the level of unthematic, pre-reflective orientation within one’s environment. The first part of the paper gives an account of this claim, while second part places the account in the broader discussion on collective affective intentionality.

Slave Traders by Invitation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Finn Fuglestad
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
Slave Traders ◽  
Atlantic Slave Trade

The small Slave Coast between the river Volta and Lagos, and especially its central part around Ouidah, was the epicentre of the slave trade in West Africa. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor was it easily accessible from the interior due to a lagoon which ran parallel to the coast. The local inhabitants were not only sheltered against incursions from the sea, but were also locked off from it. Yet, paradoxically, this small coastline witnessed a thriving long-term commercial relationship between Europeans and Africans, based on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. How did it come about? How was it all organized? Dahomey is usually cited as the Slave Coast's archetypical slave raiding and slave trading polity. An originally inland realm, it was a latecomer to the slave trade, and simply incorporated a pre-existing system by dint of military prowess, which ultimately was to prove radically counterproductive. Dahomey, which never controlled more than half of the region we call the Slave Coast, represented an anomaly in the local setting, an anomaly the author seeks to define and to explain.

scholarly journals EXPRESS: Communication in the Gig Economy: Buying and Selling in Online Freelance Marketplaces

2021 ◽  
pp. 002224292110308
Author(s):  
Stephan Ludwig ◽  
Dennis Herhausen ◽  
Dhruv Grewal ◽  
Liliana Bove ◽  
Sabine Benoit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Uncertainty Reduction ◽  
Uncertainty Management ◽  
Price Premiums ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Online Marketplaces ◽  
Affective Intensity ◽  
Dyadic Analyses ◽  
Management Theories

The proliferating gig economy relies on online freelance marketplaces, which support relatively anonymous interactions by text-based messages. Informational asymmetries thus arise that can lead to exchange uncertainties between buyers and freelancers. Conventional marketing thought recommends reducing such uncertainty. However, uncertainty reduction and uncertainty management theories indicate that buyers and freelancers might benefit more from balancing, rather than reducing, uncertainty, such as by strategically adhering to or deviating from common communication principles. With dyadic analyses of calls for bids and bids from a leading online freelance marketplace, this study reveals that buyers attract more bids from freelancers when they provide moderate degrees of task information and concreteness, avoid sharing personal information, and limit the affective intensity of their communication. Freelancers’ bid success and price premiums increase when they mimic the degree of task information and affective intensity exhibited by buyers. However, mimicking a lack of personal information and concreteness reduces freelancers’ success, so freelancers should always be more concrete and offer more personal information than buyers do. These contingent perspectives offer insights into buyer–seller communication in two-sided online marketplaces; they clarify that despite, or sometimes due to, communication uncertainty, both sides can achieve success in the online gig economy.

scholarly journals Developing Entrepreneurial Spirit Based on Local Wisdom

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Muhamad Ahsan ◽  
Armanu Thoyib ◽  
Achmad Sudiro ◽  
Nur Khusniyah Indrawati
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
The Core ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
Autonomous Institution

<p>The purpose of this paper is to explore of entrepreneurial spirit development at the <em>Pesantren</em> (Islamic Boarding School) Sunan Drajat which led by Kyai Abdul Ghofur in local setting one of Islamic propagator legends in Indonesia, Sunan Drajat. The research method used ethnography approach. The techniques of collecting data used were participant observation, interview and focus group discussion. Techniques of analyzing data used were content analysis of interview, domain analysis, taxonomy analysis, component analysis and finding culture themes. The findings are entrepreneurial spirit development at the <em>Pesantren</em> Sunan Drajat has been inspired by <em>catur</em><em> </em><em>piwulang</em> philosophy as the core in giving spirit to the students and local communities. The entrepreneurial spirit development has produced a distinctive model in preparing Islamic entrepreneur generations for the future. As practical implication, the findings can be used as reference to develop entrepreneurial development especially at <em>pesantren</em> in Indonesia. The model also can be used to motivate another <em>pesantren</em> to develop an institution through the local economic based activities to become autonomous institution and not depend on other parties. Originality of this research is to reveal the leadership role and local wisdom in developing entrepreneurial spirit at the <em>Pesantren</em> Sunan Drajat and the community surrounding.</p>

scholarly journals Non-local setting and outcome information for violation of Bell's inequality

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 083051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Pawłowski ◽  
Johannes Kofler ◽  
Tomasz Paterek ◽  
Michael Seevinck ◽  
Časlav Brukner
Keyword(s):  
Bell’S Inequality ◽  
Bell's Inequality ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
Outcome Information ◽  
Non Local

The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting

1988 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
pp. 766
Author(s):  
W. Ward Gasque ◽  
Colin J. Hemer
Keyword(s):  
Local Setting

Rasāsvāda: A Comparative Approach to Emotion and the Self

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 115-139
Author(s):  
Sthaneshwar Timalsina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Systematic Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Emotion ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Rasa Theory

This paper explores the philosophy of emotion in classical India. Although some scholars have endeavored to develop a systematic philosophy of emotion based on rasa theory, no serious effort has been made to read the relationship between emotion and the self in light of rasa theory. This exclusion, I argue, is an outcome of a broader presupposition that the 'self' in classical Indian philosophies is outside the scope of emotion. A fresh reading of classical Sanskrit texts finds this premise baseless. With an underlying assumption that emotion and self are inherently linked, this paper explores similarities between the Indian and Chinese approaches.

Atmosphären – Transmissionen – Interaktionen: Zu einer Theorie sozialer Affekte

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Seyfert
Keyword(s):  
Affect Studies

ZusammenfassungIn der Geschichte der Soziologie sind Gefühle, Emotionen und Affekte auf die verschiedenste Art und Weise konzipiert worden. Im sozialpsycho­logischen Paradigma entstammen Emotionen individuellen Triebwünschen und gewinnen in erster Linie in konflikthaften Auseinandersetzungen ihren sozialen Charakter (Sublimation, etc.). Dem gegenüber bringt die Soziologie der Emotionen die Denkfigur der Interaktion in Anschlag, die es möglich macht ganz neue unper­sönliche Emotionen zu konzipieren, Emotionen, die aus zwischenmenschlichen Be­gegnungen erst hervorgehen. Seit den 1990er Jahren lässt sich nun die Entstehung der Affect Studies beobachten, die mit der Soziologie der Emotionen zwar den interak- tionistischen Ansatz teilen, jedoch deren anthropologischen Reduktionismus über­winden wollen. Bei der Entstehung sozialer Emotionen und Affekte spielen nicht nur individuelle Triebwünsche und soziale Stimmungen eine Rolle, sondern auch affektive Atmosphären, die der jeweiligen Umwelt entstammen. Obwohl die vorliegende Arbeit die Ansicht teilt, dass eine Theorie sozialer Affekte die Rolle nicht-menschlicher Ele­mente zu berücksichtigen hat, hält sie den Atmosphärenbegriff für problematisch, weil er deterministische Tendenzen impliziert und die Spezifizität aller beteiligten Körper unberücksichtigt lässt. Aus diesem Grund wird der Begriff der affektiven Inter­aktionen vorgeschlagen, der keine undifferenzierte Hintergrundstimmung annehmen muss, sondern die genauen Affekt Verhältnisse zwischen den anwesenden Körpern beschreiben kann. Dabei steht die Frage im Vordergrund, auf welche Art und Weise die jeweils anwesenden Körper miteinander interagieren (symbolisch, olfaktorisch, elektrisch, akustisch, etc.). Die Beantwortung dieser Frage verweist dann zugleich auf die Konstitution der beteiligten Körper und auf den jeweiligen Affekt, der aus der Interaktion von Körpern hervorgeht. Hinsichtlich affektiver Interaktionen greifen wir auf die Theorie der Transmission von Jean-Marie Guyau zurück, bezüglich des Konzepts des Körpers als distributives Ensemble beziehen wir uns auf Spinoza. Das affektive Milieu, aus dem Affekte entspringen, nennen wir Affektif.

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