ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the implications of some of these debates, including some of own research, that open up to more speculative, innovative propositions to take forward at the intersection of sociology, cultural theory, art, and what am calling a speculative science, or ‘Future Psychology’. Experiences such as this are often subsumed as examples of suggestion, contagion, and imitative processes that are primarily experienced and communicated through an ‘alien phenomenology’. Alien phenomenologies are those, which in different ways, people might experience as feeling that they are being moved to action by someone or something else. Affect theories and the field of affect studies have been a very influential interdisciplinary focus of research and thought, which can be found across a range of disciplines, including literature, philosophy, cultural theory, media studies, film studies, art and curatorial study, queer theory, feminism, and critical race studies.
