Affective Dissent

This article identifies a form of affective bio-politics more intimate, engrained and corporeally enacted than that identified in recent work emphasising the affective qualities of activism and labour. While these latter reinforce and bolster existing analyses through the identification of further affective concerns, affective bio-politics suggests that neoliberalism supports and sustains itself quite fundamentally through, what have generally been, unrecognised affective means. While such affective regulation can only ever be partial and imprecise its unrecognised, and thus implicitly concealed, character lends it a particular cogency. Illuminating the mechanisms through which such affective regulatory modulation is achieved thus has a powerful potential to clarify further opportunities to disrupt and counter neoliberalism. This account juxtaposes an analysis of affective bio-politics with existing analyses of the affective, and performative, dimensions to activist politics, in order to facilitate the identification of specific opportunities for further affective contestationary strategies

Editorial

Editorial by Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke

Editorial

Editorial by Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke

Editorial

Editorial by Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke

Editorial

Editorial by Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke

Editorial

One of the tasks of the humanities academic—the philosopher, the cultural studies researcher—is to devise informed judgement through the exercise of a complex intelligence. It’s a matter, one might think, of sorting out the truth from bullshit and telling it how it is. If only the world would just stay simple … This directness has some appeal, until you start trying to specify the appropriate criteria, grounding and form for judgement. Disciplines address precisely these issues, and to the extent to which they do so successfully, they specify complex phenomena in particular ways; they authorise certain kinds of enquiry and speech as they productively cultivate their own patch of knowledge. Cultural studies has made interdisciplinarity its business, bewitched and distracted by the complexities of actual existing cultural practices, by spatial and temporal mobility and seepage, by authority and exclusion, ownership, belonging and boundaries

De-risking the energy transition by quantifying the uncertainties in fault stability

Acknowledgements DH first presented the core ideas in this paper at the Tectonic Studies Group AGM in Cardiff in 2014, and enjoyed discussions there with Dr Jonathan Turner (RWM Ltd). Thanks to former PhD student Dr Sarah Weihmann (now at BGR) and cosupervisor Dr Frauke Schaeffer (Wintershall DEA) for discussions about using oil industry wireline log data for quantifying geomechanical models. Thanks to Tom Blenkinsop (Cardiff) for the idea of using fault dips to estimate friction coefficients. GMT (Wessel et al., 2013) was used for the maps. SciPy (Virtanen et al., 2021), Numpy (Harris et al., 2020), and matplotlib 605 (Hunter, 2007) were used for the Python pfs code and Allmendinger et al. (2012) for various geomechanical and geometrical algorithms. We thank the reviewers for comments that improved the manuscript. DH acknowledges NERC funding from grant NE/T007826/1.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Editorial

In this issue of Cultural Studies Review we have been joined by Linnell Secomb as co-editor and facilitator of the special section ‘Affective Community’, which also provides us with the issue’s tag. The essays in this section, introduced by Linnell in the following pages, originate from the Hybridity/Community Conference held at the University of Sydney in March 2002

The biopolitics of community economies in the era of the Anthropocene

In a recent essay Michael Hardt gives voice to a widespread discontent with the left-academic project of critique, stemming from its failure to deliver on its emancipatory promises. Scholarship, in geography and many other social science disciplines is dominated by a pre-occupation with charting the intricate connections between neoliberal governance and an expansive capitalism. As Hardt and many others have observed, the process of critical exposure fails to incite a political response from broader publics. As an alternative to the failed politics of critique, Hardt — inspired by Foucault's engagement with the cynics—argues for a practice of militant biopolitics—an autonomous mode of reflecting, thinking and acting together that eschews expert knowledge. In this paper I argue that the pioneering work of Gibson-Graham and scholars inspired by their work can be seen as a form of militant biopolitics. Collaborative and participatory forms of research and working with others, become the basis for engaging with and transforming economies and human interactions with ecologies. Beyond generating critical awareness, this scholarship aims at producing a post-capitalist politics. Keywords: Gibson-Graham, diverse economies, biopolitics, critique, post-capitalis