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Affective Self: Feminist Thinking and Feminist Actions

This article contributes to the field of research on discursive practices of feminist activity in relation to the visual arts, specifically the digital image. Using empirical media research and applied continental philosophy, this article takes its subject of feminist activity to mean the context of political relational work, labour, and feminist attitudes in discussion with political theory. The article contributes to a developing movement, on a new materialist feminist media theory, which uses the theoretical tools of both analytic epistemology and continental critical philosophy for a positivist reading of gender projects. The article also tests the methods of writing feminist accounts, drawing on academic critical styles, in addition to utilizing the “confessional” mode of many feminist texts. In doing so, it seeks to underscore the relationship between the practiced platforms of feminist activity and their historical narrativisation. The article is driven by the larger need in feminist theory to develop the processes of writing about creative and lived gendered experiences. This work has developed into further published articles, a book in process, and collaborative research that engages in critiques of feminist positions on current debates in gender. This research into affective activity is cited in an article by Phoebe V. Moore-Carter (2011) ‘The International Political Economy of Work and Employability’, Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, 2:2, 193-197, DOI: 10.1080/23269995.2011.10707925

(http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2011.10707925).