Patricia T. Clough is a Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Intercultural Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Her books include Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (Minnesota 2000), Feminist Thought: Desire, Power and Academic Discourse (co-edited with Charles Lemert, J.W. Wiley, 1995) and The End(s) of Ethnography (Peter Lang 1992, revised 1998). Her most recent book, co-edited with Jean Halley, is The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (Duke 2007).

Clough on Probabilities, Predictions and Prophecies, Part 2, The New School: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TgMlpa57hU

Patricia Clough on the internet as playground and factory: http://vimeo.com/6797762

Clough and Han: Metronome Beating:  http://www.vimeo.com/5400775

Sponsored by the Affect Working Group, the Department of Sociology, and the Center for Cultural Studies. For more information on this event and/or future events of the Affect Working Group please contact Prof. D. Gould (dbgould@ucsc.edu) or Prof. D. Takagi (takagi@ucsc.edu) or Prof. C. Freccero (freccero@ucsc.edu).