ABSTRACT

This chapter explores affect as it unfolded for Master’s students engaging with personally meaningful objects while making their first stop frame animation and reflecting on this process in light of new materialist theories. The text is an experiment to make tangible this complex collaborative process of making, discussing, co-thinking, and co-writing. It explores the potential of stop frame animation making as a source of affective intensities, emerging from a temporary assemblage of people and things joined in co-creation and co-agentive collaboration. It shows animation making as a powerful tool to put in motion learners and learning about materiality, time, space, and connections with things and people as a driving force towards discovery. The chapter proposes an approach to learning and understanding literacy grounded in forces of living that are open to the unforeseen and unpredictable, and that are based in processes of immanence, emergence, and movement.