![]() Importance of the body and to emphasize “circuits of feeling and response” against 3 Numerous interventions in cultural studies invoke affect to signal the Of Freud, Silvan Tomkins, or Julia Kristeva-afford readers sophisticated descriptions ofĪffect which are incorrectly (and all-too-often) conflated with treatments of mere feelings Many forms of psychoanalysis-for instance, the work New York Press, 2003) and Sianne Ngai, Ugly Feelings (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Howard Eiland and Joel Golb (Albany, New York: State University of Press, 2003) Winfried Menninghaus, Disgust: The Theory and History of a Strong Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 2008) Ranjana Khanna, DarkĬontinents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 1992) Jonathanįlatley, Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism (Cambridge, Melancholy, 1790-1840 (Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press,Ģ See Wolf Lepenies, Melancholy and Society, trans. (2005) is exemplary, particularly Chapter 1: “Feeling, Self-Awareness, and Aestheticįormalization after Kant.” See Thomas Pfau, Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Use exceptional care in developing systemic treatments of substance and psychic life,ġ Thomas Pfau’s Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840 Theorists such as Baruch Spinoza and Sigmund Freud Or aesthetic network which determines its political or ethical purchase and importance. Is not just the particularity of the sensation but its place in a larger philosophical, analytic, Of specific emotions or affects-melancholy, disgust, anxiety, and others-reveal how it Inexact but, rather, critical to the histories of philosophy and aesthetics. Exemplary studies ofįeeling, mood, and emotion reveal the degree to which such terms are neither opaque nor Is mood merely a name for a vague romantic sense of things. Feeling in itself is not necessarily opposed to critical knowledge or reality, nor This is not always wrong, such easy substitution frequently results in significant error orĭistortion. It is often taken as another word for “feeling,” “mood,” or “emotion” while He has been commissioned by the University’s Barber Institute to write a new chamber opera, Raising Icarus, planned for production in 2022.Affect is a difficult concept to define, primarily because there are severalĬompeting versions of affect across early modern, modern, and contemporary conceptual Since 2012, he has been Professor of Composition and artistic director of CrossCurrents contemporary music festival at the University of Birmingham. Gordon is also strongly committed to working with students and younger composers, including at Cheltenham Festival, Juilliard, Antwerp Conservatorium, University of Oxford and as leader of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Emerging Composers Scheme. ![]() He has won the choral category of the British Composer Awards twice, a Prix Italia for his radiophonic work A Pebble in the Pond and has had two discs listed in The Times best 100 records of the year, in 2009 for On Memory, a piano music portrait disc on NMC, and in 2019 for In the Middle of Things, a chamber music portrait disc on Resonus Classics. Gordon has worked with many internationally leading performers, including London Sinfonietta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, King’s College Cambridge choir and The BBC Symphony Orchestra who have commissioned him twice – for Bohortha in 2012 and a Violin Concerto in 2017, with Carolin Widmann and Sakari Oramo. Memory, time and a search for the serene are recurring themes. Born in London, Michael Zev Gordon is a composer of richly expressive and colourful music in which the tonal and atonal, the old and new, happily rub shoulders.
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