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Affect theory as a book category gathers works that explore emotions, bodily sensations, and nonconscious intensities as social, cultural, and political forces rather than merely private feelings. Encompassing interdisciplinary scholarship and creative writing—from theoretical monographs and cultural criticism to literary readings, memoirs, and empirical studies—these books examine how affects (mood, affective atmospheres, trauma, empathy, contagion, desire) shape subjectivity, power, media, art, and collective life. They emphasize embodiment, prelinguistic experience, and the circulation of feeling across bodies and institutions, often drawing on psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, sociology, and critical theory to reframe how we understand emotion, memory, and social change.

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