Tag Archives: affect

Un-Affected Studies

Posted on November 10, 2015 by zjb
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Immortality & The Transmission of Affect (Teresa Brennan)

Posted on November 5, 2015 by zjb

My first introduction to the idea of Affect Theory was the scenario modeled by Teresa Brennan The Transmission of Affect. A person walks into a room and “feels” the atmosphere charged this way or that. The feeling or affect is … Continue reading →

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God or Nature and Vibrant Matter (Jane Bennett)

Posted on October 28, 2015 by zjb

Against the classical notion that matter is inert and passive, the ideas are familiar and will come as no surprise to any casual reader of popular science. For all that, Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2010) represents … Continue reading →

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New (Vital) Materialisms

Posted on October 23, 2015 by zjb

Reviewing my reading notes, I’m not sure what to say about the excellent edited volume, New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics edited by Diana Coole and Samantha Frost. I’m looking at it as a sister, cross-over companion to Material Feminisms edited by … Continue reading →

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Material Feminism & Jewish Aesthetic Thought (New Chapter)

Posted on October 2, 2015 by zjb

Needless to say, there has been little to zero recognition of these kinds of questions in Jewish philosophy about human viscera, affect, imagination, and the constitution and deconstitution of human subjectivities. The larger contexts to all this are woolly ideas in … Continue reading →

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International Bystander (Syria)

Posted on September 30, 2015 by zjb

This in the Guardian. As Russia begins intentionally to bomb non-ISIS targets in Syria, I am ashamed to be an American. It’s not for me to provide definite answers. I’m just a concerned U.S. citizen who happens to spend a … Continue reading →

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Entrepreneurial Judaism & The Visionary Synagogue

Posted on September 10, 2015 by zjb

I did not know what to expect from Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues From Functional to Visionary written by Isa Aron, Steven Cohen, Lawrence Hoffman, and Ari Kelman –except, of courses, that it was going to be about the American synagogue … Continue reading →

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Affect Theory Conference (Lancaster, PA)

Posted on September 9, 2015 by zjb

You can find the full program here.

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כל בשר (Meat Not Transcendence (Duetero-Isaiah)

Posted on August 15, 2015 by zjb

In scholarly and theological circles, Deutero-Isaiah is famous for the world-embracing transcendence of its vision. The heaven is My throne, the earth My footstool, a new heaven, a new earth, etc. (66:1, 22). But the focus of the text, chapter … Continue reading →

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Doubts, Cognitive Dissonance, & American Jewish Iran Deal Static

Posted on August 10, 2015 by zjb

A friend asked on FB why the Jewish conversation is so all over the place about Iran Deal. On one hand, there are those prominent Israeli military people who think the Deal is not all that catastrophic. And then there … Continue reading →

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