C. Papoulias
Biology's gift: interrogating the turn to affect
Papoulias, C.; Callard, F.
Authors
F. Callard
Abstract
This article investigates how the turn to affect within the humanities and social sciences re-imagines the relationship between cultural theory and science. We focus on how the writings of two neuroscientists (Antonio Damasio and Joseph LeDoux) and one developmental psychologist (Daniel Stern) are used in order to ground certain claims about affect within cultural theory. We examine the motifs at play in cultural theories of affect, the models of (neuro)biology with which they work, and some fascinating missteps characterizing the taking up of scientific literature. While neuroscience frames the affective as part of a system of regulation that makes both self and social coherence possible, in cultural theory’s narratives, by contrast, affectivity becomes a placeholder for the inherent dynamism and mutability of matter. The article interrogates the consequences of cultural theory’s strange borrowings from neuroscience and developmental psychology in their institution of a model of subjectivity preoccupied with a lived present in excess of the hold of habit and embodied history.
Citation
Papoulias, C., & Callard, F. (2010). Biology's gift: interrogating the turn to affect. Body & Society, 16(1), 29-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034x09355231
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Mar 1, 2010 |
Deposit Date | Mar 15, 2012 |
Journal | Body and Society |
Print ISSN | 1357-034X |
Electronic ISSN | 1460-3632 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 29-56 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034x09355231 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1479703 |
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