@misc{Boesel2018, author = {B{\"o}sel, Bernd}, title = {Affect Disposition(ing)}, series = {Media and Communication}, journal = {Media and Communication}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-418309}, pages = {15 -- 21}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The "affective turn" has been primarily concerned not with what affect is, but what it does. This article focuses on yet another shift towards how affect gets organized, i.e., how it is produced, classified, and controlled. It proposes a genealogical as well as a critical approach to the organization of affect and distinguishes between several "affect disposition(ing) regimes"—meaning paradigms of how to interpret and manage affects, for e.g., encoding them as byproducts of demonic possession, judging them in reference to a moralistic framework, or subsuming them under an industrial regime. Bernard Stiegler's concept of psychopower will be engaged at one point and expanded to include social media and affective technologies, especially Affective Computing. Finally, the industrialization and cybernetization of affect will be contrasted with poststructuralist interpretations of affects as events.}, language = {en} } @article{Boesel2018, author = {B{\"o}sel, Bernd}, title = {Affect Disposition(ing)}, series = {Media and Communication}, volume = {6}, journal = {Media and Communication}, number = {3}, publisher = {Cogitatio Press}, address = {Lissabon}, doi = {10.17645/mac.v6i3.1460}, pages = {15 -- 21}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The "affective turn" has been primarily concerned not with what affect is, but what it does. This article focuses on yet another shift towards how affect gets organized, i.e., how it is produced, classified, and controlled. It proposes a genealogical as well as a critical approach to the organization of affect and distinguishes between several "affect disposition(ing) regimes"—meaning paradigms of how to interpret and manage affects, for e.g., encoding them as byproducts of demonic possession, judging them in reference to a moralistic framework, or subsuming them under an industrial regime. Bernard Stiegler's concept of psychopower will be engaged at one point and expanded to include social media and affective technologies, especially Affective Computing. Finally, the industrialization and cybernetization of affect will be contrasted with poststructuralist interpretations of affects as events.}, language = {en} } @article{Boesel2018, author = {B{\"o}sel, Bernd}, title = {Affect Disposition(ing)}, series = {Media and Communication}, volume = {6}, journal = {Media and Communication}, number = {3}, publisher = {Cogitatio Press}, address = {Lisbon}, issn = {2183-2439}, doi = {10.17645/mac.v6i3.1460}, pages = {15 -- 21}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The "affective turn" has been primarily concerned not with what affect is, but what it does. This article focuses on yet another shift towards how affect gets organized, i.e., how it is produced, classified, and controlled. It proposes a genealogical as well as a critical approach to the organization of affect and distinguishes between several "affect disposition(ing) regimes"—meaning paradigms of how to interpret and manage affects, for e.g., encoding them as byproducts of demonic possession, judging them in reference to a moralistic framework, or subsuming them under an industrial regime. Bernard Stiegler's concept of psychopower will be engaged at one point and expanded to include social media and affective technologies, especially Affective Computing. Finally, the industrialization and cybernetization of affect will be contrasted with poststructuralist interpretations of affects as events.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Boesel2021, author = {B{\"o}sel, Bernd}, title = {Die Plastizit{\"a}t der Gef{\"u}hle}, publisher = {Campus Verlag}, address = {Frankfurt}, isbn = {978-3-593-51453-6}, pages = {454}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Das emotionale Leben wird zunehmend durch digitale Technologien ausgelesen, reguliert und produziert. Diese gleichermaßen von Hoffnungen und {\"A}ngsten begleitete Entwicklung ist die vorerst letzte Station einer bis in die Fr{\"u}hgeschichte zur{\"u}ckreichenden, tiefgehenden Verschr{\"a}nkung von Affekt und (Kultur-)Technik. Bernd B{\"o}sel er{\"o}ffnet einen umfassenden genealogischen Blick auf die epochenmachenden Neujustierungen dieser Technisierung. Denn erst im Nachvollzug der verschiedenen Logiken des Verf{\"u}gens {\"u}ber Affekte wird es m{\"o}glich, die Verflechtung der Technisierungsformen zu verstehen, auf denen die Psychomacht der Gegenwart basiert.}, language = {de} }