Corrosive Solace: Affect, Biopolitics, and the Realignment of the Repertoire, 1780-1800 O'Quinn Daniel
Corrosive Solace: Affect, Biopolitics, and the Realignment of the Repertoire, 1780-1800 O'Quinn Daniel In Corrosive Solace, Daniel O'Quinn argues that the loss of the American colonies instantiated a…
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Corrosive Solace: Affect, Biopolitics, and the Realignment of the Repertoire, 1780-1800 O'Quinn Daniel
In Corrosive Solace, Daniel O'Quinn argues that the loss of the American colonies instantiated a complex reorganization in sociability and politics in the British metropole that has had long-lasting effects on British national and imperial culture, which can be seen and analyzed within its performative repertoire. In this sense, Corrosive Solace's goals are twofold: first, to outline the methodologies necessary for dealing with the affective recognition of historical crisis; and second, to make the historically familiar strange again, and thus make visible key avenues for discussion that have remained dormant. He examines how the analysis of feeling or affect can be deployed to address the inchoate causal relation between historical events and their mediation.
Both of these objectives turn on recognition: How do we theorize the implicit affective recognition of crisis