Affect and Conjuncture with Lawrence Grossberg

Culture, Power, Politics » Podcast · Oct 23, 2026 · 1h 59m

How do we understand affective experience as a particular dimension of specific historical conjunctures? If ‘affect’ names a plane of experience that is characterised by feeling and physicality, how can we understand it as always socially conditioned and always historically specific? Has the nature of affect itself changed since the 1950s? And how can thinkers from Spinoza to Stuart Hall help us answer these questions?

Lawrence Grossberg has been a key figure pioneering such answers since the 1970s, having played a major role in introducing the ideas of Stuart Hall and the intellectual…