Turbulent passions: towards an understanding of the affective spaces of political performance

This final chapter provides an investigation of the affective realm of political feeling, understood as the history of the development of a series of affective technologies, and follows on from Chapters 7 and 8). In particular, I want to understand what might be best called ‘motivational propensity’ or ‘disposition’, the means by which masses of people and things become primed to act. This requires, most particularly, an understanding of affect, since such a propensity must include at its heart moods that we (howsoever defined) cultivate.1