{"title":"Weeping by the water: hydraulic affects and political depression in south Korea after sewol","authors":"Dong Sung Kim","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823285679.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823285679.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Sewol names both the senseless mass drowning of schoolchildren in a 2014 ferry disaster off the southwest coast of South Korea and its abiding affective impact on the South Korean population and diaspora. Anchoring itself in the tide of emotion washing from the broadcasted images of Pangmok Harbor where families and friends wept and awaited news of lost loved ones, but also reactivating the image from Psalm 137 of earlier weeping by another body of water (“By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion…”), this essay explores the affective possibilities of water as an elemental archive or repository of emotion beyond the constricting confines of the national. The essay also argues that a generalized concept of affect will not suffice to do justice to Sewol. A Korean tragedy evokes a Korean affect, and that affect the essay locates in the Korean concept of Han.","PeriodicalId":350265,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Emotion, Sensation","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125632222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The animality of affect: religion, emotion, and power","authors":"D. Schaefer","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823285679.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823285679.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This essay argues that the immensely influential concept of affect as unstructured proto-sensation that is primarily associated with Gilles Deleuze and Brian Massumi is insufficient to understand the roles of affect in religion and other formations of power. The Deleuzian approach to affect fails to reckon adequately with the animality of the human body, with its evolutionarily particular bio-architecture that affords it a finitely multiple repertoire of affects. Moving to religion by way of Sylvan Tomkins, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Sara Ahmed, the essay argues that the felt bodily needs and consequent affective economy of which religion is the product hinge on shame and dignity, and it proceeds to illustrate its claim with reference to Saba Mahmood’s analysis of the women’s Mosque Movement in pre-revolutionary Egypt.","PeriodicalId":350265,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Emotion, Sensation","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115261278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capitalism as religion, debt as interface: wearing the world as a debt garment","authors":"Gregory J. Seigworth","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823285679.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823285679.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Taking its lead from St. Francis of Assisi, this essay elaborates the theme of the “debt garment,” one that offers both the promise of recognition—that of one’s worldly belongingness to all other humans and nonhumans—and the threat of burdens that crush some more harshly than others, but whose weight all must carry. In a semi-secular-theological turn, the essay contends that credit/debt relationships make and unmake worlds. Threading together insights from a patchwork assemblage of sources, including M. T. Anderson’s YA novel Feed, current advancements in “wearable” technologies, St. Francis, Parrika, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari (to name but a few), the essay explores the ethological and ecological web of debt and ultimately proffers an aesthetics of debt, whereby debt becomes not merely a garment worn, but both a gesture of promise for, and a threat to, other worlds.","PeriodicalId":350265,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Emotion, Sensation","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128326636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feeling dead, dead feeling","authors":"Amy M. Hollywood","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvsf1qrj.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvsf1qrj.13","url":null,"abstract":"What does it mean to read and write devoutly, religiously, mystically—even, or especially, if one’s reading or writing qualifies for none of these adverbs in any conventional sense? What, in particular, does it mean to read and write about death and dying in these affective registers? These are the questions that animate this essay, a deeply personal dialogue with selected literary authors that smudges the line between literature and criticism and is less a discourse on affect than an immersion in affect. The author of the essay approaches her chosen literary works—literature with which she has bonded—as both fragmentary inscriptions of the divine and articulations of complex affects that exceed individual subjectivity. Difficult literature, for this author—reading it, writing it—is valuable training for the intractable difficulty of death.","PeriodicalId":350265,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Emotion, Sensation","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123452235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}