Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 30/01/2026SSA conference website coming next week ... 022 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Society for the Study of Affect Summer School AUGUST 6-8 Theme: SCAR at U of New Mexico - Albuquerque Seminars: Katie Stewart + Greg Seigworth / Dylan Robinson + Oliver Shao / Asilia Franklin + Bretton Varga / talk w/ Erin Manning + Brian Massumi For more details: affectsociety.com/scaraffectsociety.comSSA #SCAR Summer SchoolAffect and be affected at the second Society for the Study of Affect Summer School (SSASS). Co-hosted by the Society for the Study of Affect and Dr. Michael Lechuga at the University of New Mexico in ... 052 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I love teaching this essay to my students. 110 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Here is your INAUGURATION DAY COUNTERPROGRAMMING. Capacities to: Affect Up Against Fascism. Open access. Read online or download as pdf. (Book form coming soon.) More than 40 contributors, over 350 pages. READ. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. imbricate.press/book/capacit...imbricate.pressCapacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism<p>Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism is a collection of more than forty essays, poems, and visual works that convey myriad approaches for understanding, surviving, and creating counter-movement... 13413 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 06/01/2025anything that involves Anna Hickey-Moody will be brilliant bsky.app/profile/muah... 010 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 26/12/2024There is still time to submit to the "Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism" project! We are 50+ proposals deep but don't mind entertaining a few more. Deadline is Dec 31 for full submission (w/ or w/o abstract). 1500 words max. See the CFP for details. Released Jan 20! 020 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024ZOOM RECORDING of Society for the Study of Affect 00:00-10:00 SSA (who? how to join?) 10:00-22:00 Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism book project (background) 22:00-38:00 Getting Published in Capacious (being transparent) 38:00-1:00:00 Testimonials (feels) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qa_...youtube.comCapacities To: Publish in CapaciousYouTube video by SSA 0133 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024New book. FREE to DOWNLOAD. In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround. Yes, Lauren Berlant's work on inconvenience figures in here and there (see especially Susanna Paasonen's chapter). networkcultures.org/blog/publica...networkcultures.orgTOD #54 In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical SurroundTheory on Demand #54In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical SurroundEdited by Joshua Neves and Marc SternbergConvenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates 121 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 25/11/2024HAPPENING TODAY MONDAY 25 Nov: 4- 5 pm EST. Zoom: bit.ly/capacitiesto Info about the Society for the Study of Affect. Discussion of our 'up against fascism' book project. How to get published in Capacious: with testimonies from reviewers / reviewees. Rangy conversation at the very end if possible. 071 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Mon Nov 25 4- 5 pm EST zoom: 1) Society for the Study of Affect (events, open positions), 2)Q & A around the 'Capacities To' against fascism book, 3) discuss publishing in the journal Capacious for folks who might be new and/or understandably trepidatious about the process. bit.ly/capacitiesto 1115 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024If unfamiliar with the Society for the Study of Affect, more information, including membership, is available here: affectsociety.comaffectsociety.comSSASociety for the Study of Affect is... 010 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024BOOK PROJECT. I posted this CFP in 300 character chunks earlier but here is the full pdf. Message w/ any questions. "Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism" - deadline for abstracts is 10 Dec, with complete submissions (100-1500 words) due Dec 31. Click the link for the pertinent details.drive.google.comCapacities To CFP.pdf 11410 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024End transmission. Sorry it is so piecemeal. I will post a link to the full pdf once we have it uploaded to the SSA website. 010 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024● Beyond more usual written submissions, we are also very interested in visually oriented essays and artistic works. ● Poetic, experimental, and prose-mixed modes of writing are welcome. ● Submissions from non-US/North American and non-European countries are especially encouraged. 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Final submissions are due December 31, 2024. Everyone will be notified about whether their submission has been accepted for publication (or not) by no later than Wednesday, January 8. 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024While we’d much prefer to read your abstract and offer any necessary revisions on the abstract or a completed submission as early as possible, you can also submit your paper for review on December 31 without having submitted an earlier abstract. 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Please send a working title and opening paragraph/short overview to editor@imbricate.press by Dec 10, 2024. This allows us to see how the volume is shaping up, to see what’s missing, to figure out how to frame and introduce the pieces, etc. 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024So, then, will this be a book? a zine? a manifesto? a glossary? a manual for living? Maybe all of these, and something yet unforeseen. 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024That’s the aim of this project: to forge a place where we can gather up our respective orientation/disorientations and capacities/debilities to …intervene in, mess with, fuck up, turn over, probe and prick and deflate a furiously expanding fascism. 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024...provide the uniquely situated opportunities for embracing otherness as joyful and open-ended, for recognizing contamination and messiness as life-giving and not life-draining, for convincing bodies-minds that they/them is ultimately we/us? How do we get there while also bringing others along? 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Namely, what/where/when/how does one (or several) unlock those ‘capacities to’ that dwell within the creases and along the cusp of fascism’s fearsome futurity, those capacities and incapacities that ... 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024So, this is where we need all of your energies, inventories (gleaning key lessons from struggles against fascism in other geographical locales and historical moments), and inventions. 110 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Standing affect theory up against fascism requires not only a vibrantly visceral literacy but, even further, a capacity-to: compose/decompose/declaim/profane/make kin/raise a din (please insert your own word or phrase here) as our most forthright and capacious counter-tactic. 110 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024We must work to claw such corporeally-disaggregating discourse away from its calamitous trajectories and, instead, steer them toward decidedly different and radically integrative ends. 000 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The fascist affects have clearly spoken! And they’re winning. (Note: we welcome diagnostic approaches to fascism’s own ‘capacities/incapacities to’ as well.) 200 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024... or are supposedly not allowed to do: especially when these bodies are deemed as terrifyingly out-of-bounds because they’re trans, because they’re migrant-and-alien, because they’re other-than-reproductively oriented. 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024It matters how we come to act together in order to foster along and share practices and styles for-making/unmaking/refusing-a-world that will always push and pull at our capacities and incapacities to adequately think, rethink, unthink, out-think what a body or bodies can do ... 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024We should not neglect these viable and vital aspects of capacitation that necessitate a role too for diminished, suspended, thwarted, imposed, calculative, cultivated (and more) incapacities. 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The global spread of fascism distributes unwellness, disability, and debility of various sorts across entangled registers: body-mind-spirit-land-water-air… That is, ‘capacities to’ are always more than shadowed by, indeed can be swarmed over and criss-crossed by, ‘incapacities to’. 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024While crafting, carrying forward, and sustaining political and poetic projects of joy–of increases in capacities to affect and be affected–are undoubtedly urgent, other affective states with their attendant range of capacities (from undaunted to diminished) deserve accounting and attention. 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Only then might we find the embodied-living ‘capacities to’ stitch together and generatively bootstrap disparate clusters of passively endured sad affects into a collective singularity of becoming(s)-active. 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024then, as affect theorists, one of our chief tasks, as Spinoza reminds us, is to trace effects back to their real一not imagined, not self-projected一causes, to their impersonal and transcorporeal affects (no matter how overdetermined, ordinary, and ongoing they are). 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024If fascism offers, at one level, in reply to 'What can a body do?' - “Let’s cleanse the aggregate body-politic of otherness, of difference, of ‘contaminants’, of they/them, and, hence, rid ourselves—once & for all—of the threats and fears refracted through each and every one of these,” ... 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Palpabilities can sometimes provide glimpses that, if sustained long enough, allow us to feel-out and toward those inventories and inventions making particular affective tactics and strategies more and more available. 100 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Our hope: such palpabilities can do something more than merely gesture to an elsewhere, an otherwise. They can serve to open up shimmers of gut-level insight about how we might re-route around what, right now, appears stymied. 020 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024What’s to come? What’s already long been? What’s to be done? What might be undone? From out of the very midst of our reelings, we must find ways to wrestle with such questions in spite of or, rather, because of their seeming unfathomability, their dangerous portents, their very real palpabilities. 250 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024– but feeling grief, rage, numbness, disgust, despair, flattened, scattered, scared, and intermixtures of all these (and many more) are surely in the running as immediate but inadequate visceral descriptors for this moment. 130 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The world’s steady sloping toward 21st century fascism took an even more precipitous slide with the US electoral victory of Donald Trump in this fall’s election. There is no way to fully capture where different folks are in their (dis)orientation to this unfolding fascism... 130 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Unifying theme: each entry (essay, artwork, intervention) will address how theories of affect respond to this ongoing fascist moment with creative/experimental &/or critical-theoretical approaches to how we endeavor to persist/resist/ insist/exist from the palpable now into the foreseeable future. 151 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024IMBRICATE! PRESS is the book imprint of the Society for the Study of Affect (open access) Submissions: 100-1500 words. Due Date: 31 December (abstracts: 10 December). Publish: 20 January 2025 Every submission must use the words ‘capacities to’ (or minor variation thereof) in its essay title. 170 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024IMBRICATE! PRESS is the book imprint of the Society for the Study of Affect. Due Date: 31 December 2024 (abstracts: 10 December 2024). 100-1500 words. Published 20 January 2025. Every submission must use the words ‘capacities to’ (or some minor variation thereof) in its essay title. 074 0
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Still learning BlueSky's parameters... so I'm going to chain-mail the PDF for a book-project with a very tight timeline (release on Inauguration Day in the US: 20 January). The title is "Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism" and it's all hands-on-deck. Email editor@imbricate.press - Here goes: 1268 0
