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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Transformations </i>announces the release of Issue 31<br>
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<b>Technoaffect: Bodies, Machines, Media<br>
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</b><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/</a></span></u><u><span style="color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">The body and affect have always been technological. Technologies of the body circulate affect, producing flows and forms of feeling that are economically and politically situated. Contemporary digital practices are inevitably corporeally
enframed, calling upon and creating bodily norms. People diversely experience new ‘configurations of bodies, technology and matter’ that are accompanied by reworked public feelings and structures of feeling. Sticky affects glue together ‘ideas, values and
objects’ and arrange boundaries between peoples and worlds. All too often the resulting inclusions and exclusions reinforce problematic structures of domination. At the same time affective technologies can be a site for challenging past marginalisations and
reworking experiences and understandings of affect, as evidenced by creative and scholarly practices in this area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">This special issue of <i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Transformations</span></i> pays critical attention to the circulation of affect by bodily technologies. Demonstrating the centrality of affect to the cultural,
critical and creative analysis of technologies, these papers explore affect’s movement in and through virtual reality, artificial intelligence, gaming, disconnection, drones, Facebook, blogging, and e-sports.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Issue editors: Erika Kerruish and Rebecca Olive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Papers:<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Susan Kozel, Ruth Gibson, Bruno Martelli</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_01_kozel.pdf"><span style="color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">The Weird Giggle: Attending to Affect in Virtual Reality</span></a></span><em><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Poppy Wilde</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_02_wilde.pdf"><span style="color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Avatar affectivity and affection</span></a><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Hannah Lammin</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_03_lammin.pdf"><span style="color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Conversing with Machines: Affective Affinities with Vocal Bodies</span></a><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Jenny Sundén</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_04_sunden.pdf"><span style="color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Queer Disconnections: Affect, Break, and Delay in Digital Connectivity</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Michael Richardson</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_05_richardson.pdf"><span style="color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Drone Capitalism</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Zsuzsanna Dominika Ihar</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_06_ihar.pdf"><span style="color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Friend Requests from the Force: Affective Mimicry, Intimate Imitations
and a Softened Police Apparatus</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Susannah French</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_07_french.pdf"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Musings of an Aspie</span></em><span style="color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">:
Blogging, Gender and Affect</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Elena Pilipets</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_08_pilipets.pdf"><span style="color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Queer Workings of Digital Affect: The Hypermediated Body of Conchita
Wurst</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Ben Egliston</span></em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_09_egliston.pdf"><span style="color:windowtext;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">E-sport, phenomenality and affect</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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