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This panel presents the work of a collective project seeking to rethink the “work” of the popular and its articulations to the political through a theorization of the apparatuses of affect. Our three objectives are: (1) to describe the agencies, sites and the mechanics of how affects and affective investments (articulations) are produced, mobilized, deployed, organized, and managed; (2) to map the productivity of such articulations in producing new seams, frontiers, and battle lines in the affective landscape of contemporary political and cultural struggles; and (3) to develop a contextual theory of affect and everyday life. We are examining the emerging frameworks which offer a problematization of affect and seeking to bring together the biopolitical materialism of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari and the contextualist practice and conjuncturalist politics (hegemony) of cultural studies. At the same time, we are exploring multiple sites of the articulation of affect, power and the popular.
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This research seminar examines the impact of British cultural studies upon contemporary understandings of racialized social formations. Reading will center on the work of Paul Gilroy, whose explorations of racial ideology, multiculturalism, diaspora and post-imperial metropolitan cultures have generated original avenues of research and influenced a number of areas of intellectual inquiry, including scholarship in American Studies and African American Studies. This seminar explores Gilroy's major essays and books in anticipation of a conference on his work scheduled to take place at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in January 2008, for which Gilroy will give the keynote address. The seminar explores key arguments and themes emerging from Gilroy's writings alongside readings in feminist and postcolonial theory, the history of cultural studies and social scientific research on racial formations.
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As a research arm of the UPCS, the group’s work will be framed by questions that concern scholars in the wide-ranging field of Cultural Studies, for example: How is memory affected by complex material, social, and cultural relationships? How does it reflect and intervene on contingent structures of power? How can remembering or even forgetting answer to demanding international scenarios? How are various claims on identity (nationalist, gender/sexed, classed, raced) negotiated in the process of what Annette Kuhn calls “memory work”? These questions are intended to be generative of both disciplinary critique and revision.
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