id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt cn69m328w5r Laura Beth Thompson Affective Corporeality: Contemplations on the Body in the Postmodern Context 1904 .txt text/plain 137 6 46 Through using visual iterations of affect and the abject, I instill in the viewer the heightened sense of empathy and/ or trauma. I discuss Affect Theory through the lens of Brian Massumi and Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection as a means to reveal postmodern humanity as fragmented and socially schizophrenic, in the Lacanian sense. cache/cn69m328w5r.txt txt/cn69m328w5r.txt