In a time of live-streamed genocide, it has truly never been more clear that witnessing suffering will not automatically trigger social transformation. If the answer is not in shocking jolts and major ruptures, what power might lie in the minor key? Professor and author Carolyn Pedwell weaves pragmatist philosophy, affect theory and contemporary social movements to reveal how “affective inhabitation”, subtle tendencies and collective habits accrue power, shaping new infrastructures of care, possibility, and resistance.

Carolyn Pedwell, Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation (McGill-Queens University Press, 2021)
https://www.mqup.ca/revolutionary-routines-products-9780228006220.php

Carolyn Pedwell and Gregory J. Seigworth (eds.), Affect Theory Reader 2 (Duke University Press, 2023)
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-affect-theory-reader-2

E.K. Sedgewick, Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think this Essay Is About You
https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/sss/pdfs/Critique/sedgwick-paranoid-reading.pdf

Erin Manning, The Minor Gesture (Duke University Press, 2016)https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-minor-gesture

Lauren Berlant Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press, 2013)
https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism

Host: Neja Berger
Guest: Carolyn Pedwell

Recording: Neja Berger
Music and audio mix: Gašper Torkar
Editing: Neja Berger, Janez Fakin Janša

Are You a Software Update? podcast series

Curated by: Neja Berger
Coordinated by: Janez Fakin Janša
Produced by: Marcela Okretič

Production:
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2025

Part of:
tactics&practice#16: Are You a Software Update?
Curated by Nora O’ Murchú, Socrates Stamatatos, Janez Fakin Janša, Neja Berger

Supported by:
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica

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