ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the issue of affect and affective relations, and the way the senses are mobilised in often liberating ways when fan and celebrity meet in the arena of fantasy and dreaming. It takes us to the circuit of celebrity affect. Celebrity affect offers up a different set of intensified possibilities for those who employ cross-modal senses to feel beyond feeling. Affective celebrity is tied to the myth of the media centre, inviting people to gravitate towards their famed status as if that is where organic and intensified life takes place. The passion and frenzy of feeling that celebrity ignites and attaches itself to is part of a wider culture where sense and sensation, revelation and confession, outpouring and gossip have begun to shape the pulsating veins and arteries of everyday life. Celebrity compels one to feel but such feeling may well be in the service of late capitalism and liquid modernity.
