“Tired of Speaking Silly German?” – Notes Toward a Lingua Casa

This essay explores the affective tensions of multilingual life through the lens of Portuguese migrants in Berlin. It draws from interviews conducted between 2024 and 2025 to trace how it feels being “split” across languages, giving rise to a tentative and lived dynamic. The figure of „the migrant“ that appears throughout is neither universal nor … weiterlesen

After Affects, Future Feelings – Clare Hemmings in Conversation

A lot has happened since notions of affect first emerged as a theoretical concept and took hold across the humanities and social sciences. The contours of what was then still confidently called Theory have blurred, morphed into something else, or vanished from sight. The political horizons of the 1990s and 2000s—the time when affect marked its most forceful interventions within theoretical discourse—look very different now, at least to many. The series „After Affects, Future Feelings“ sets out to reflect on these changes, both regarding theoretical developments and their very own structures of feeling, i.e. their shifting material and geographical conditions.

Affective Societies, affective scholars! 5 questions to Billy Holzberg

The interview series poses questions concerning the role of affects and emotions in research practice and contemporary society to researchers on short-term visit and associate members of the Collaborative Research Center “Affective Societies.” Today we introduce Billy Holzberg, Assistant Professor in Social Justice at King’s College London. He is a sociologist and social theorist whose work … weiterlesen