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This article offers a review of the relationship of methodological positivism and post-World War II U.S. sociology, especially its transformations in the last three decades of the twentieth century. With this as context, sociological methodology is rethought in terms of what cultural critics refer to as infra-empiricism that allows for a rethinking of bodies, matter and life through new encounters with visceral perception and pre-conscious affect. Thinking infra-empiricism as a new empiricism at this time means rethinking methodology in relationship to the changing configuration of economy, governance disciplinarity and control in the early twenty-first century.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: What Affects Are Good For -- Introduction -- The Parched Tongue -- Techno-Cinema: Image Matters in the Affective Unfoldings of Analog Cinema and New Media -- Slowness: Notes toward an Economy of Différancial Rates of Being -- Myocellular Transduction: When My Cells Trained My Body-Mind -- Women's Work and the Ambivalent Gift of Entropy -- Voices from the Teum: Synesthetic Trauma and the Ghosts of the Korean Diaspora -- In Calcutta, Sex Workers Organize -- More Than a Job: Meaning, Affect, and Training Health Care Workers -- Haunting Orpheus: Problems of Space and Time in the Desert -- Always on Display: Affective Production in the Modeling Industry -- The Wire -- Losses and Returns: The Soldier in Trauma -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index