How to understand the politics of feeling today amid what can feel like a maelstrom of resentment, other-orientated rage, and online vitriol? How is political life in the UK and the US being reshaped by the differentiation of political feeling? In the turbulent aftermath of the 2024 UK General Election and US presidential election, and amid a globally resurgent far-right, the workshop addresses the affective politics of this tense moment. This free to attend workshop marks the publication of Ben Anderson and Anna Secor’s book, The Politics of Feeling: Progressivism, Populism, Liberalism (2025, Goldsmiths Press), and their co-edited New Formations special issue on ‘Affect and Ideology’ (2024, Issue 112). Both the book and the issue develop concepts in the bleed between affect and ideology, revisiting many of the central questions of cultural studies and bringing them to bear on this conjunctural crisis amid the endings of neoliberalism. Taking the book and the special issue as a springboard, Ben Anderson, Anna Secor, Will Davies and Jeremy Gilbert will open a discussion about the politics of feeling today. There is no cost to attend the workshop.
