SIlvan Tomkins: Affect
Affect is about what passes between people and things.
Deleuze is concerned with the notion of Intensity of affect.
Tomkins is concerned with basic affects. Tomkins disliked the use of the term 'emotions', and instead used the term 'script.'
Tomkins identified nine fundamental types of basic Affect, each with its own continuum:
Positive:
Interest - excitement
Enjoyment - joy
Neutral:
Surpirse - startle
Negative:
Fear - terror
Distress - anguish
Anger - rage
Disgust
Dissmell
Shame - Humiliation.
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-curriculum/book232571 - The Curriculum, theory and Practice, (Kelly, 2009)
As educators, interest is the most important and influential category of affect.
Artworks as a method to explore sex education.
Affect theory as a way of assessing an image - accessibility to young people.
The effects of affect are characterised by the bodily responses to stimuli.
Francisco Goya, The Disasters of war 1810-20.
Jeff Wall - A Ventriloquist at a Birthday Party in October 1947 (1990)
October 1947 as a date has been given
What can you see in this photographic piece? (Consider the people, doll, room and the arranged objects in the space.)
12 children gather around a parent, waiting for the ventriloquist show to begin
Who are the actors and how do they relate to one another?
One singular parental figure
Look at the doll: what messages do his clothes and gestures send out?
Cuffed neck,
What do you think the ventriloquist may be saying (through the doll)?
The doll may be used as a surrogate to discuss things that cannot be said by the mother.
The title gives us the historical moment represented in 1947. Does this date add anything to the meanings you are beginning to form?
On October 5, 1947, President Harry Truman (1884-1972) makes the first-ever televised presidential address from the White House, asking Americans to cut back on their use of grain in order to help starving Europeans
150 house Fires in Maine - ties in to presence of balloons and sitting infront of the fireplace
Canadian independence
No men in the image - representing the absence of men in the balloons.
Chinese andother east asian immigrants coming into Canada.
What might happen once the ventriloquist act is over?
Lighting implies that it is the last act of the night.
The Dummy will be put away into the box (connotations with a coffin).
Is this a birthday party you would like to attend? Why?
Looks uncomfortable, possibly sinister. Children are quiet,docile and obedient.
Importance of planning, but also repsonding organically to what happens in the lesson.
Opening up for students to talk or refocussing the task. Sustaining interest. - Providing learning resources in new ways, to asking the chidlren to do their own investigations into image.
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