Speculative Affect

Charmaine Eddy is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where she teaches modern American literature, Black literary studies, and literary and cultural theory. She has published several articles on new materialisms and hoarding, including “The Art of Consumption: Capitalist Excess and Individual Psychosis in Hoarders” in Canadian Review of American Studies and “Trash and Aesthetics in the Hoard” in NANO: New American Notes Online. 'She also has a forthcoming monograph on William Faulkner, States of Racial Abjection: Writing the Liminal South in William Faulkner’s Later Fiction, accepted for publication by the University of Mississippi Press.

• Section One: Introduction.- Chapter 1: Speculative Affect: An Introduction by Charmaine Eddy.- Section Two: Theorizing Speculative Affect.- Chapter 2: The Speculative Garden.- Chapter 3: Untimely Materialist Meditations on Affect.- Chapter 4: Does the Object Feel? Toward a Theory of Speculative Affect.- Section Three: Speculative Affect and Ecological Precarity.- Chapter 5: Tracing Waves.- Chapter 6: “It Would Be So Nice If This Were a Dream”: Reading the Tohoku Earthquake through Affect Theory.- Section Four: The Affective Object of Art.- Chapter 7: Settler Imbroglios and Affective-Ecological Entanglements in the Work of Peter von Tiesenhausen, Kara Springer, and Jin-me Yoon.- Chapter 8: Nomadic Objects in Unhappy Lands: History, Memory, and Affect in Joanna Rajkowska’s Public Projects Carried out in Warsaw (2002-present).- Chapter 9: Ontogenesis as Revolt: René Magritte’s Universe.