Situated Affectivity and Mind Shaping: Lessons from Social Psychology

Walter, Sven; Stephan, Achim

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“…Similarly, situated affectivity holds that emotions, feelings and other affective responses do not arise simply from mental processes but from complex interactions between agents and their environments (Stephan and Walter 2020;Walter and Stephan 2023). Inspired by situated cognition, this work has also emphasized how our affective lives also fit the 4E approach.…”

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How Public Statues Wrong: Affective Artifacts and Affective Injustice

Archer

2024

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In what way might public statues wrong people? In recent years, philosophers have drawn on speech act theory to answer this question by arguing that statues constitute harmful or disrespectful forms of speech. My aim in this paper will be add a different theoretical perspective to this discussion. I will argue that while the speech act approach provides a useful starting point for thinking about what is wrong with public statues, we can get a fuller understanding of these wrongs by drawing on resources from recent work in situated affectivity. I will argue that public statues can be understood as affective artifacts and that this can both help us understand both the deep affective wrongs caused by public statues and offer a possible explanation as to why some people are so strongly opposed to their removal.

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How Public Statues Wrong: Affective Artifacts and Affective Injustice

Archer

2024

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“…However, interactions in the incel forums show why this “user/resource model” ( Slaby, 2016 , 5) of scaffolding is too optimistic. In general, our affective lives are also shaped ( Coninx and Stephan, 2021 ; Walter and Stephan, 2023 ), if not “invaded” ( Slaby, 2016 ), by a broad range of scaffoldings.…”

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Incels, autism, and hopelessness: affective incorporation of online interaction as a challenge for phenomenological psychopathology

Tirkkonen,

Vespermann

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Recent research has drawn attention to the prevalence of self-reported autism within online communities of involuntary celibates (incels). These studies suggest that some individuals with autism may be particularly vulnerable to the impact of incel forums and the hopelessness they generate. However, a more precise description of the experiential connection between inceldom, self-reported autism, and hopelessness has remained unarticulated. Therefore, this article combines empirical studies on the incel community with phenomenological and embodiment approaches to autism, hopelessness, and online affectivity. We analyze three interrelated aspects of online interactions in incel communities – worldview, bodily self-relation, and mutual dismissals – and examine how these elements contribute to the consolidation of the loss of significant life possibilities. By investigating the potential negative influence of specific online environments on affective dispositions, our approach contributes to the debate on current challenges to “situate” phenomenological psychopathology.

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On Hostile and Oppressive Affective Technologies

Spurrett

2024

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Abstract4E approaches to affective technology tend to focus on how ‘users’ manage their situated affectivity, analogously to how they help themselves cognitively through epistemic actions or using artefacts and scaffolding. Here I focus on cases where the function of affective technology is to exploit or manipulate the agent engaging with it. My opening example is the cigarette, where technological refinements have harmfully transformed the affective process of consuming nicotine. I proceed to develop case studies of two very different but also harmful affective technologies. Casinos and electronic gambling machines deploy computationally intensive scaffolding to shape the onset and continuation of gambling episodes. High-heeled shoes affectively engineer wearers’ relationships to their own embodied capacities and are predominantly expected to be worn by women. I conclude with a discussion of the need for study of affective technology to focus other-directed applications, some of which will serve competing or antagonistic interests.

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Situated Affectivity and Mind Shaping: Lessons from Social Psychology

Cited by 10 publications

References 150 publications

How Public Statues Wrong: Affective Artifacts and Affective Injustice

How Public Statues Wrong: Affective Artifacts and Affective Injustice

Incels, autism, and hopelessness: affective incorporation of online interaction as a challenge for phenomenological psychopathology

On Hostile and Oppressive Affective Technologies

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