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Video artist Cecelia Condit's recent work offers a rich visual and sonic poetics of feeling, engaging multiple varieties of sensation, affect, and emotion. Drawing on Erin Manning's theory of preacceleration, this essay provides a close reading of Condit's beguiling Within a Stone's Throw (2012) as an environmental piece and in the context of her other work and her life. It argues that Condit's solitary video work in Ireland's rocky region resulted in a feeling of freedom that not only enabled her to create Within a Stone's Throw—part environmental artwork, part performance piece, part impersonal self-portrait—but also served as a catalyst for feminist emotion that explodes in triumph in I've Been Afraid (2020). Paradoxically, then, in Within a Stone's Throw we find the emergence of "planetary affect," a mode of being on Earth that doesn't center human subjectivity in forceful psychological and social emotions, but does enable them.

Resumo Idosos fragilizados e seus cuidadores são praticamente invisíveis nos circuitos representacionais (filmes, romances, fotografia, televisão, internet, jornais), sendo os idosos habitualmente desconsiderados como não cidadãos, e seus cuidadores geralmente não cidadãos dos Estados-nação em que trabalham. Como dar visibilidade ao que é um escandaloso segredo público da vida cotidiana, pois o cuidado dos idosos se torna cada vez mais uma questão de mercado global em nossas economias neoliberais? Este ensaio explora a representação de cuidadores e idosos, juntos, em fotografias, memórias, notícias e filmes documentais, sugerindo que uma das formas mais eficazes de reivindicar mudanças em políticas públicas é promover a compreensão das pessoas por meio de histórias e imagens. Neste estudo eu levo em conta histórias do viver assistido envolvendo idosos, que são brancos, e cuidadores remunerados, não brancos, gênero feminino e parte das cadeias globais de cuidado; essas histórias incluem o artigo do escritor estadunidense Ted Conover, Os últimos melhores amigos que o dinheiro pode comprar1 (1997), publicado no New York Times Magazine, e o documentário "Bonecas de Papel"2 (2006). De importância fundamental é o sentimento de parentesco que emerge conforme novas formas de família tomam forma.

kathleen woodward, Professor of English and Director of the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin,Milwaukee, is the Chair of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. She is the author of Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (Indiana University Press, 1991) and the editor ofFiguring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (Indiana University Press,1999). She is currently working on a book entitled "Circulating Anger and Other Feelings: The Cultural Politics of the Emotions."

Marks of time Nancy K. Miller -- Aging and the scandal of anachronism Mary Russo -- Other end of the fashion cycle Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- Little women Teresa Mangum -- Incubabies and rejuvenates Susan Squier -- Charcot's older women Stephen Katz -- Social physics Teresa Brennan -- Inventing generational models Kathleen Woodward -- Trauma and aging E. Ann Kaplan -- Not a jealous bone Cecelia Condit -- Scary women Vivian Sobchack -- Monster/beauty Joanna Frueh -- Figure model series, 1991-1995 Jacqueline Hayden -- Performance aging/performance crisis Jodi Brooks -- Dolly descending a staircase Anne Davis Basting -- Aging between the ears Rachel Rosenthal -- Touching surfaces Anca Cristofovici -- Well of wisdom Marie-Claire Pasquier -- From anxiety to equanimity Patricia Mellencamp -- Genealogy Joanne M. Braxton -- Missing Alice Susan Letzler Cole -- Making an exit Elinor Fuchs

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Part One -- The Tattered Web of Cultural Meanings -- The Meaning of Life and the Meaning of Old Age -- The Virtues and Vices of the Elderly -- The Meaning of Risk, Rights, and Responsibility in Aging America -- Legal Reform and Aging: Current Issues, Troubling Trends -- Victorian Morality in a New Key -- Part Two -- Subjectivity: Literature, Imagination, and Frailty -- Introduction -- Reminiscence and the Life Review: Prospects and Retrospects -- The Wizard of Pilgrimage, or What Color Is Our Brick Road? -- Growing Old Together: Neighborhood Communality Among the Elderly -- Growing Old Together: Neighborhood Communality Among the Elderly -- Frailty and Strength: The Dialectic of Aging -- Appendix: A Select Bibliography of Aging and Meaning -- Aging and Meaning: A Bibliographical Essay -- A Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index

Cyberspace, the cyborg and cyberpunk have given feminists new imaginative possibilities for thinking about embodiment and identity in relation to technology. This is the first anthology of the key essays on these potent metaphors. Divided into three sections (Technology, Embodiment and Cyberspace; Cybersubjects: Cyborgs and Cyberpunks; Cyborg Futures), the book addresses different aspects of the human-technology interface. The extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theory and indicates the context for the specific essays. This is an invaluable guide for students studying any aspects of contemporary theory and culture.Brings together in a unique collection the work of key authors in feminist and cyber theoryDemonstrates the wide range of contemporary critical workChallenges constructions of gender, race and classAn extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theoryBrief section introductions indicate the context for the specific essays