This week’s reading is basically about the ordinary affects, the term that we may hear before but not really pay attention to. The reading is very interesting that is composed by different vignettes. Many vignettes are the ordinary everyday life and very familiar for me but I have never thought differently. Author Kathleen Stewart is trying to use different vignettes to show how we can think deeply of ordinary everyday life and shift our practical knowledges of intimate experiences. Stewart thinks that ordinary affects can affect the everyday life and gives it the quality of a continual motion of relations, scenes, contingencies and emergences. Many people repeat their everyday life, repeat it again and again, and get used to that speed. Because
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Stewart said that “from the perspective of ordinary affects, things like narrative and identity become tentative though forceful compositions of disparate and moving elements” (8). Ordinary affects transfigures the most banal practices and objects by juxtaposing and combining them together. For example, still life that Stewart mentioned in her article. Still life is captures the liveness of inanimate objects such as cup and fruit. Because still life drawing always use similar objects and it not hard to become an expert by studying for one or two years. In this case, the drawing from different experienced painters will be nearly the same and ordinary. However, in order to make still life pops out of the ordinary, we need to really think about the composition and combination of the still life. The different combination of still life can change the narrative and concept of the drawing. As same as ordinary everyday life, if people pay more attention to details of everyday life and collect fragments of intimate experience, it can let people think and engage more deeply with their ordinary life that they take for
Stewart said that “from the perspective of ordinary affects, things like narrative and identity become tentative though forceful compositions of disparate and moving elements” (8). Ordinary affects transfigures the most banal practices and objects by juxtaposing and combining them together. For example, still life that Stewart mentioned in her article. Still life is captures the liveness of inanimate objects such as cup and fruit. Because still life drawing always use similar objects and it not hard to become an expert by studying for one or two years. In this case, the drawing from different experienced painters will be nearly the same and ordinary. However, in order to make still life pops out of the ordinary, we need to really think about the composition and combination of the still life. The different combination of still life can change the narrative and concept of the drawing. As same as ordinary everyday life, if people pay more attention to details of everyday life and collect fragments of intimate experience, it can let people think and engage more deeply with their ordinary life that they take for