Gemignani Marco, Hernández-Albújar Yolanda
Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Seville, Spain.
Emot Space Soc. 2022 May;43:100882. doi: 10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100882. Epub 2022 Apr 16.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the restriction of free movement and the sheltering-in-place became worldwide strategies to manage the virus spread. Especially at the beginning of the pandemic, community-based affective events helped people feel less isolated and support each other. In this manuscript, we explore how two of these social practices-clapping and singing-were useful to counter the emotions entailed in the subjectivation processes that accompanied the pandemic. We then argue that, seen as affective happenings, singing and clapping heightened emotions and affects that were already implicit in neoliberalism, mainly anxiety, loneliness, and a sense of precariousness, disposability, and inadequacy. On one hand, singing and clapping were liberatory practices of solidarity and resistance against the changes induced by the pandemic and its biopolitics. On the other hand, they contributed to the primary narratives on social resilience, docile bodies, and biopolitics that informed the crisis management. Singing and clapping also operated as neoliberal technologies of the self by bringing the focus on individual agency, behavioral control, and the sacrifice of specific subjects (e.g., the healthcare workers described as heroes). In short, singing and clapping were affective happenings that instantiated an entanglement of subjectivation practices in which the power to affect and the power to resist coincided.
在新冠疫情期间，限制自由流动和居家隔离成为全球应对病毒传播的策略。特别是在疫情初期，基于社区的情感活动帮助人们减少了孤独感并相互支持。在本论文中，我们探讨了其中两种社会行为——鼓掌和唱歌——如何有助于对抗伴随疫情而来的主体化过程中所蕴含的情绪。然后我们认为，从情感事件的角度来看，唱歌和鼓掌加剧了新自由主义中已然隐含的情绪和情感，主要是焦虑、孤独以及一种不稳定感、可抛弃感和不足感。一方面，唱歌和鼓掌是团结和抵抗疫情及其生命政治所引发变化的解放性实践。另一方面，它们促成了关于社会复原力（顺应）、驯顺身体和生命政治的主要叙事，这些叙事为危机管理提供了依据。唱歌和鼓掌还通过将焦点放在个体能动性、行为控制以及特定主体（例如被描述为英雄的医护人员）的牺牲上，而成为新自由主义的自我技术。简而言之，唱歌和鼓掌是情感事件，体现了主体化实践的一种纠葛，其中影响的力量和抵抗的力量相互交织。
