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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#MAKE2026 will host a zine kiosk celebrating creative, political, and analytical forms of research dissemination beyond the conference paper. Bring, exchange, make, or unmake zines on any topic! Email Claire Fitch or Trent Wintermeier for printing help. Mail zines to SSA by Oct. 15, 2026:

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We have official MAKE MERCH available for pre-order on our website. Available for pickup at the conference! Scroll through the pictures and find your favourite. Place your order now using the form: affectsociety.com/make/confere... The vibes keep getting better. #affectstudies #conference #vancouver

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you are coming to #MAKE in Vancouver, check out our post about using our web app! www.instagram.com/p/DagnYT3mG6... So many exciting ways to be affected this October!! Workshops, making matters, screenings, and, of course, streams.

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

#SSAMAKE 2026 Conference will have 77 panels, 306 papers, and 26 workshops, performances, and art installations! Acceptance emails are out, check your submission status: affectsociety.com/make/confere... Register, grab the early bird rate, limited dinner ticket: affectsociety.com/make/confere...

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Last date to submit a paper abstract for MAKE! affectsociety.com/make/confere...

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

As it gets dreamily warm and closer to the summer, take some time out to make Fall plans in #VANCOUVER by submitting a paper to SSA MAKE: affectsociety.com/make/confere...

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The #MAKE 2026 call for papers is open! Browse the streams below and submit your 250-word abstract to the one that best fits your paper by May 29. Together, these streams MAKE space for unexpected crossings, vibes, and capacities to make life otherwise. Submit her: affectsociety.com/make/confere...

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

TONIGHT is the deadline to submit stream proposals for SSA MAKE (Oct 2026, Vancouver) affectsociety.com/make/#about

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

8 days left to propose streams for our 2026 conference MAKE (Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies). Key Dates: — Stream proposals due March 31 — Paper abstracts due May 22 — “Making Matters” proposals (installations, performances, workshops, film/music, etc.) due May 22

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Submit now for MAKE (Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies). October 23-25 in Vancouver, Canada, located at/around the downtown Simon Fraser University campus. Stream proposals: Due March 31. Paper abstracts: Due May 22. Non-paper intervention: Due by May 22 More: affectsociety.com/make/

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

🖋️ Upcoming Conference Alert!! Society for the Study of Affect... 'MAKE'...Vancouver...October 23-25. More details to come in the next week! Yes, affect conferences have the best vibes. Let's see what we can MAKE in Vancouver...rerouting the (worst) timelines of the present.

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🌀 New Read: Jason Read's blog post captures the completely effed-up nonsense of life in the US right now: "The paranoid fear of the overreach of government contains a kernel of a fantasy that COVID never happened, or was never something to take seriously" www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/09/figh...

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Fighting for Infection as if it were Wellness: On the Anti-Vax Moment

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

As of 9 AM in Albuquerque, New Mexico, #SCAR summer school has officially begun!

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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...

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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...

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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...

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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...

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🌀 New Read: Jennifer Nash & Samantha Pinto’s “On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism” — open-access till Sept 6. Expect more on the lines of: “We begin with a feminist theory forged in the bathrobe...the exhaustion that is part of enduring” Read it here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

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On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism | differences | Duke University Press

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

🌀 New Read: "Where Positive Flow Can Thrive," in which Tony Sampson tracks how UX merges with positive psychology to shape digital labor. Behind “user-centered” design lies affect and minimizing risk—workers become emotional probes in optimized, surveilled workplaces. Free on Computational Culture.

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

✨ Capacious Spotlight: “I’m training for a feeling I don’t have yet.” What if #LaurenBerlant 's writing is already whispering to our algorithms? In the 2024 issue, Carolyn Pedwell & Eve Stowe ask how genre, infrastructure, and affect pulse through our digital networks. doi.org/10.22387/CAP...

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What Does Lauren Berlant Teach Us About Networked Affect?

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Seminar 2 and 3 are still accepting submissions! Run to affectsociety.com/scar/ and share all your amazing ideas about interpellation, sensing, SCAR, and more.

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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.

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