Sentient Subjects

Gerda Roelvink is interdisciplinary scholar located in human geography. She is the author of Building Dignified Worlds (Minnesota UP) and co-editor of Making Other Worlds Possible (Minnesota UP). She has also co-edited, with Dr Magdalena Zolkos, two special issues for the journals Angelaki and Emotion, Space and Society. Magdalena Zolkos works across the fields of political theory, cultural studies and philosophy, currently as Humboldt Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She is the author of Restitution and the Politics of Repair: Tropes, Imaginaries, Theory (Edinburgh UP) and co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch: On What Cannot Be Touched (Lexington).

• 1. Posthumanist Perspectives on Affect: Framing the FieldGerda Roelvink and Magdalena Zolkos 2. Affective Ethologies: Monk Parakeets and Non-Human Inflections in Affect TheoryAda Smailbegović3. Mimesis as a Mode of Knowing: Vision and Movement in the Aesthetic Practice of Jean PainlevéAnna Gibbs4. Losing Steam After Marx and Freud: On Entropy as the Horizon of the Community to ComeKaryn Ball5. Insect Affects: The Big and Small of the Entomological Imagination in ChildhoodStephen Loo and Undine Sellbach6. A War Long Forgotten: Feeling the Past in an English Country VillageEmma Waterton and Steve Watson7. "My Name Is Danny": Indigenous Animation as Hyper-Realism Jennifer L. Biddle8. Affect: An Unworkable ConceptMaria Hynes and Scott Sharpe