One more Capacious early view for your eyes: Xiaofei Yang writes about the 'rotten girls' of China. On China’s neoliberal transition, material and immaterial wellbeing, it uncovers how they are "simultaneously advancing and impeding feminism."

Read: capaciousjournal.com/article/rott...

In the new Capacious Early View essay, Sofia Di Gironimo takes you into the affective experience of a techno rave in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). It "imagines new social arrangements beyond the limitations of discrete selfhood" through Deleuze, Spinoza, and more

Read: capaciousjournal.com/article/cj-6...

Another new piece up on 'early view' at Capacious! Jordan Etherington's essay is so cringe. Completely cringe. All cringey. Joining together the affect theories of Sara Ahmed and Silvan Tomkins, Jordan looks at how cringe is weaponized to punch down.

Read: capaciousjournal.com/article/cj-6...

A new early view essay is available to view on the Capacious website. Emily Martin writes about non-human erotics/desire and fungal whateverbeings and more. It is so smart and such a delight to read.
Find it here: capaciousjournal.com/article/cj-6...

Thinking of these ideas from the SCAR summer school Seminar 3 description! If you have some thoughts, apply at affectsociety.com/scar/. Only a few seats left, due July 31

#affecttheory

Thinking of these energetic questions from the SCAR summer school Seminar 2 description! If you have some answers (or not), you can apply to join at affectsociety.com/scar/. Only a few seats left, due July 31

#affecttheory #interpellation

Why SCAR? Across various zones of elaboration, SCAR will be traced as an activating concept and as lived reality. Scars—invisible, interior, jaggedly present as a mangled landscape or relation. Our personal and collective bodies bear the mark of scars from events—even generations—long-past.