Happy objects / Sara Ahmed -- The future birth of the affective fact : the political ontology of threat / Brian Massumi -- Writing shame / Elspeth Probyn -- Cruel optimism / Lauren Berlant -- Bitter after taste : affect, food, and social aesthetics / Ben Highmore -- An ethics of everyday infinities and powers : Félix Guattari on affect and the refrain / Lone Bertlesen and Andrew Murphie -- Modulating the excess of affect : morale in a state of "total war" / Ben Anderson -- After affect : sympathy, synchrony, and mimetic communication / Anna Gibbs -- The affective turn : political economy, biomedia, and bodies / Patricia T. Clough -- Eff the Ineffable : affect, somatic management, and mental health service users / Steven D. Brown and Ian Tucker -- On Friday night drinks : workplace affects in the age of the cubicle / Melissa Gregg -- Desiring recognition, accumulating affect / Megan Watkins -- Understanding the material practices of glamour / Nigel Thrift -- Affect's future : rediscovering the virtual in the actual / Lawrence Grossberg (an interview with Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg).