Methodologies of Affective Experimentation

Britta Timm Knudsen is Professor of Experience Economy at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. She has published on difficult heritage, cultural studies, affect theory and methodologies. Recent books and edited collections include Decolonizing Colonial Heritage (2021), Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect (2015), Affective Methodologies (2015), Enterprising Initiatives (2014) and Re-investing Authenticity (2010). Mads Krogh is Associate Professor of Popular Music Culture at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research deals with practice, mediation and genre in popular music culture. Recent books and edited collections include Music Radio (2019), Tunes for all? (2018) and Populær musik kultur – i Danmark siden 2000 (2016). Carsten Stage is Professor of Culture and Media at the School of Communication and Culture, AarhusUniversity, Denmark. His research explores digital illness narratives, affect and participation. Recent books and edited collections include Quantified Storytelling (2020), Cultures of Participation (2019), The Language of Illness and Death on Social Media (2018) and Networked Cancer (2017).

• 1. Introduction: Methodologies of Affective Experimentation.- 2. Affect as Disruption: Affective Experimentation, Automobility and the Ecological Crisis.- 3. Populism as Para-politics: Play, Affect, Simulation.- 4. Interspecies pedagogies: More-than-Human Experiments with Leadership in/of the Anthropocene.- 5. Engines of Affect: Experimenting with Auditory Intensities in the Jamaican Sound System Session.- 6. Experimentation in and with the Stream: Music, Mood Management and Affect.- 7. Experimentations in Pandemic Boredom.- 8. Worlding with Glitter: Vibrancy, Enchantment and Wonder.- 9.  Affective Writing Experiments.- 10. Problematising Shame: Affective Experimentation on Social Media.- 11. Affective Experiments: Card Games, Blind Dates and Dinner Parties.- 12. Wind as Elementary Attraction: Case: An Avant-Garde Experiment on the West Coast of Jutland, Denmark.- 13. The Tombstones that Cried the Night Away: AnAllegory.- 14. Activating limit as method: An affective experiment in ethnographic criminology.