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Abstract

This essay describes instances in the rhythmic play with affect in the reading of and performances with Kathleen Stewart's Ordinary Affects. It offers an engagement with the work that both troubles and is troubled. It celebrates this engagement and delights in the opportunity to read, read around, and read again and again words that flee from identification and representation and come to life in moments of tears, smiles, and writings living in the temptation and allure of the unknown. This was written with a visit to Edinburgh in mind and Robert Frank's The Americans, alongside Stewart's Ordinary Affects in my shoulder bag.

DOI

10.1525/dcqr.2016.5.4.48

Publication Date

2016-12-01

Publication Title

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research

Volume

5

Issue

4

ISSN

2333-9489

Organisational Unit

Institute of Education

First Page

48

Last Page

61

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