Wild Choreography of Affect and Ecstasy: Contentious Pleasure (Joussiance) in the Academy

Title
Wild Choreography of Affect and Ecstasy: Contentious Pleasure (Joussiance) in the Academy
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
Charteris, Jennifer
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1554-6730
Email: jcharte5@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jcharte5
Nye, Adele
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1603-2643
Email: anye@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:anye
Jones, Marguerite A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9420-2495
Email: mjones46@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:mjones46
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Sense Publishers
Place of publication
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Edition
1
Series
Bold Visions in Educational Research
UNE publication id
une:22652
Abstract
Higher education institutions comprise entangled assemblages of bodies, material objects, discourses, spaces and diverse technologies. These entanglements are affective intensities that manifest embodied prepersonal relationality. As a prepersonal construct, affect is the social, physical and emotion change, or variation that is co-produced when assemblages of bodies and objects contact (see Coleman, 2005). The corpus of the academy is a constantly changing phenomenon "intermingling with other human and non-human entities and forces in dynamic collective assemblages" (Mayes, 2016, p. 106). Affective assemblages produce a kind of existential agitation (Massumi, 2015) that comprise sensations of time/motion, speed and heat (Ringrose, 2014). This existential agitation is captured in Keats' poem (above) where melancholy and joy ravel together. The poem highlights the embodiment of pleasure, leveraged from knowledge of melancholy and flows of affect.
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Citation
Producing Pleasure in the Contemporary University, p. 49-64
ISBN
9789463511773
9789463511780
9789463511797
Start page
49
End page
64

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