Trauma and Affect - Ernst van Alphen portraits Beni Bischof

Beni Bischof

Our Spring 2024 issue encompasses two drivers of travel: the search for the familiar and the foreign

with partner Drew and surprise eight-legged companion Bambi Pavok

Without self-esteem people begin to lose their sense of agency

Trauma and Affect - Ernst van Alphen portraits Beni BischofTrauma and Affect: both concepts have become increasingly important in the critique of art, literature, and of culture in general, since the 1990s. In those years, a turn to trauma and a bit later also to affect took place. The concepts were being used in a great variety of ways, and in many disciplines and domains, such as queer studies, feminism, cultural analysis, art critique, literary studies and postcolonial studies, as well as in disciplines