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SUMMARY:Roger Matthew Grant - The Musical Origins of Contemporary Affect Theory
DESCRIPTION:Heyman Center for the Humanities\, Second Floor Common Room \nSpeaker: Roger Matthew Grant\, Assistant Professor of Music\, Wesleyan University \nDiscussant: Benjamin Steege\, Assistant Professor of Music\, Columbia University \nThis talk traces a genealogy of affect theory from the early modern era through to the present day\, establishing the central significance of music for this history. It demonstrates that the theory of affect we have inherited today has its origins in eighteenth-century aesthetic debates concerning music’s capacity to function as a sign and to move its listeners. In the early modern era\, the affects were important components of an elaborate semiotic system that sought to explain the impact of art. Today\, by stark contrast\, affect is often explicitly opposed to theories of the sign and of representation; theorists describe affect as corporeal and immediate\, working on our autonomic systems. The genealogy elaborated in this paper shows how affect theories became separated from theories of representation\, and it illustrates the central and surprising role that music played in this separation. \nThis event is part of the series\, Explorations in the Medical Humanities. Please visit the Heyman Center website for updates. \nAbout the Series: \nAs a set of disciplines\, the humanities face the challenge of how to write about embodied experiences that resist easy verbal categorization such as illness\, pain\, and healing. The recent emergence of interdisciplinary frameworks such as narrative medicine has offered a set of methodological approaches to address these challenges. Yet conceptualizing a field of medical humanities also offers a broader umbrella under which to study the influence of medico-scientific ideas and practices on society. Whether by incorporating material culture such as medical artefacts\, performing symptomatic readings of poems and novels\, or excavating the implicit medical assumptions underlying auditory cultures\, the approaches that emerge from a historiographical or interpretive framework are different from those coming from the physician’s black bag. \nSponsored by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, the Center for Science and Society\, and the Heyman Center for the Humanities.
URL:https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/scisoc/cssevent/roger-matthew-grant/
LOCATION:Heyman Center Common Room\, Columbia University\, 74 Morningside Drive\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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