Dear Per,
Thank you for your comments (and nice words about my chapter).
No, IMS Affect is not dedicated to cognitive approaches to affect only, and other perspectives are most welcome in the research cluster. The cognitive focus was for
this particular seminar, and future seminars will explore other strategies and methodologies to deal with media and affect.
And thank you all for a very productive and engaging discussion yesterday.
Cheers Niklas
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Vice Chair Department of Languages
Co-Coordinator Graduate School
MIDWorld
Linneaus
University Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies
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Salmose, N., M. Pennacchia & G Golinelli (eds.) (2025).
The Voices of Water: Intermedial Blue Eco-Stories.
Textus: English Studies in Italy, 2.
Salmose, N. (2025). ”A Darker Shade of Green:
The Great Gatsby and Fossil Fuel Capital.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bloomsbury Academic.
Salmose,
N., Rennie, D. (2024). F.
Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. 448.
Bruhn, Jørgen & Niklas Salmose.
Intermedial Ecocriticism: The Climate Crisis Through Art and Media (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024).
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Mediations of Nostalgia: Experience, Intermediality, Aesthetics (Edunburgh
University Press, 2026)
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Dear all.
Unfortunately, Martin’s text arrived too late, and since I have had problems with my eyes I couldn’t read it even though I wanted, or the other texts again as planned yesterday. I read Niklas text (and the other
texts, except the extra one that I gave up reading since it did not appeal to me) several weeks ago. Niklas text is well written and interesting, and I read it with pleasure. The two other texts, though, are a (maybe too) narrow passage to affect theory for
me, and I would suggest a broader, or different, approach next time. Or is this, as Jørgen wrote yesterday, the new framework of our group? If it is, I must rethink my role in the group, since cognition theory will not be part of my theoretical framework.
Maybe I misunderstood the whole concept of the affect group when it was initiated (and developed in Höör by a few of you).
I couldn’t see that the second text differentiated in a consistent way between aisthesis (the direct sensory perception and bodily experience) and aesthetics (the philosophical reflection upon them) (to broadly
describe one way to distinguish these terms, but to avoid the notion of “art” will of course also be prioritised when researchers decide to use the first term today). Maybe this initiated Jørgen’s question about roughly the same thing in the beginning, but
at least it explains my confusion while reading.
I wish I had had the possibility to re-read the three texts and read Martin’s, but learned a lot from the discussion, thanks! I will work the next days, so:
Have a nice summer!
Per
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Ämne: [Ims.affect] Reminder: next IMS Affect cluster meeting 9 June 10.15-12 (CEST)
Dear all,
I hope you are keeping well. This is just a brief reminder about the next meeting of IMS Affect on Tuesday the 9th at 10.15-12.
We'll be in Dacke and on Zoom:
Meeting ID: 626 2934 9099
Passcode: 847399
Please see below for the link to the readings we'll discuss.
See you on Tuesday!
All best wishes,
Anne
From: Anne Holm <anne.holm@lnu.se>
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 10:08 AM
To: ims.affect@lists.sunet.se <ims.affect@lists.sunet.se>
Subject: Readings for next IMS Affect cluster meeting 9 June 10.15-12 (CEST)
Dear members and affiliates of IMS Affect,
I hope this finds you well. Ahead of the upcoming get-together of the cluster, I am re-sending the link to the folder with shared readings as it has now been updated with the set texts for next time. The theme
of this meeting is affect, aesthetics and intermediality. The aim is to discuss how intermediality could be fruitfully brought together with current work on cognition, affect and aesthetics.
There are three texts, but I've indicated selected sections that will be particularly essential for the discussion if you're short on time. There's a document in the folder that specifies these sections. The document
also includes a few questions to think about if you prefer having such prompts when reading. These are only suggestions for what we might discuss -- we want these reading seminars to be an open space for thinking together!
You are especially welcome to relate the readings to whatever primary material you are working with.
I'll send a reminder about the meeting, along with the Zoom link, closer to the time.
Link to readings (go to the subfolder for June):
IMS
Affect
All best wishes,
Anne & Niklas
______________________
Dr. Anne Holm
Associate Professor of English
Deputy Head of Department
Department of Languages
Linnaeus University
https://lnu.se/en/staff/anne.holm/
Linnaeus
University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies