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Society for the Study of Affect 2026 #MAKE Conference

October 23, 2026 / Vancouver, BC

Society for the Study of Affect 2026 #MAKE Conference

Authors, editors, and friends of the Press can visit our table in Vancouver during the 2026 #MAKE conference! Browse new books and journal issues in affect theory in person or below, or check out our complete list in the field.

Use conference coupon code SSA26 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through December 4, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code when ordering from Mare Nostrum Group.

If you are looking to connect with any of our editors about your book project, see our editors’ specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Cover of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen has a contemporary art installation with black-and-white images projected onto cylindrical surfaces.
Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin, editors

Book

Cover of Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun features a room with cylinders covering the floor and floating casting shadows on the walls. There appears three solid overlapping circles aligned vertically and centered on the cover in golden yellow, dark
Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun

An Elegy

Crystal Mun-hye Baik

Book

Cover of Notes from the Sex Worker Left features a watercolor painting of three individuals holding their faces close together with eyes closed. The central figure’s mouth is open showing teeth and bright red lips.
Notes from the Sex Worker Left

Lumpen Theory

Heather Berg

Book

The cover background is a gradient from marroon to black with four lilac flower-like objects at the edges. Centered is a deconstructed collage like photograph of Edmonia Lewis. The bottom half of the figure is distorted creating a wavy psychedellic e
Moving Stones

About the Art of Edmonia Lewis

Jennifer DeVere Brody

Book

Cover of Close Writing is black with a black and white photograph of a couch strewn with folded papers in the upper right. A shadow of a person is centered against the light from a window.
Close Writing

Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces

Alice Butler

Book

Cover of The Witch Studies Reader features a grainy, gray illustration of a forest against a black background on the top half of the cover, with its vertical mirror image on the bottom half.
The Witch Studies Reader

Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward, editors

Book

Cover of Alien Encounters features an illustration of cabbages and a woman pushing a shopping cart on a bright yellow background, with lime green and red strips.
Alien Forms and Minor Genres

A Speculative Handbook of Academic Labor

Tina Chen

Book

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Intoxicated

Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire

Mel Y. Chen

Book

Honorable Mention, 2025 AAAS Award for Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Work

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Unfurl

Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming

Eli Clare

Book

Cover of Into the Loop features the book’s title and subtitle repeated in concentric spirals, creating a hypnotic, looping visual effect. The text varies in color—white, red, and teal—against a dark green background.
Into the Loop

An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

Samuele Collu

Book

Cover of Conceptual Activism has a tangled rope-like object centered on a white background. The blue subtitle is intertwined within it. The red author's name and title are on the top right and bottom left.
Conceptual Activism

Radical Sense-Making and the Struggle for Gender

Davina Cooper

Book

Cover of Learning from the High Priestess is a collage like drawing featuring bright colors against mostly black, using different shapes to create patterns and designs.
Learning from the High Priestess

Affect, Femme Care, and Somatic Practice

Ann Cvetkovich

Book

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Shadow of My Shadow

Jennifer Doyle

Book

Cover of Reparative Craft features a black and white photo of someone making textile art. At the bottom there are patches of fabric in red, yellow, and dark purple. They are stitched over with overlapping loops. Larger stitches loop across the whole
Reparative Craft

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Textile Artist

Jason Edwards

Book

Cover of Reparations and the Human features an image of an empty beach. A clear blue sky occupies three quarters of the space. A relatively thin line of navy blue ocean separates the sky from a strip of undisturbed sand
Reparations and the Human

David L. Eng

Book

Cover of The Sound of Feathers features an image of multicolored iridescent feathers fills the entire design. The title is in a white serif font at the top with the subtitle in yellow below it.
The Sound of Feathers

Attentive Living in a World Beyond Ourselves

Kathryn Gillespie

Book

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Living On After Failure

Affective Structures of Modern Life

Irving Goh

Book

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The Affect Theory Reader

Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth, editors

Book

Cover of Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing is white with a light pink spray-painted area at the top. Below are five hands in different art styles all reaching towards a central heart sculpture that is made from cut out hands.
Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing

Experiments in Philosophy

Lauren Guilmette and Ada S. Jaarsma, editors

Book

Cover of My Father, the Messiah features a warm, reddish-orange overlay on a blurred photograph of a child reaching down to touch a man lying on the ground. The title is in a large white serif font across the center.
My Father, the Messiah

A Memoir

Gil Z. Hochberg

Book

Cover of Racial Beings shows layers of paint and textures featuring sunset hues of yellows, oranges, pinks, and blues. The title is written in all caps in a white sans serif type.
Racial Beings

Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms

Michelle N. Huang

Book

Cover of Good Vibes Only features warped, ripple-like shapes made of colorful gradients on a dark background.
Good Vibes Only

Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation

Robin James

Book

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We See with the Skin

On Zora Neale Hurston's Methodology

Kheshti, Roshanak

Book

Cover of dear elia has a light blue background, with a photograph in the center of the page. The photograph depicts a young girl in a floral dress and pink shoes. She holds a stick and walks down an empty path.
dear elia

Letters from the Asian American Abyss

Mimi Khúc

Book

Co-Winner of the 2026 Award for Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies, AAAS

Cover of Care at the End of the World is bright yellow. It features painting by Tommi Parrish of a human figure in orange, wearing a yellow hard hat, holding on to a burst pipe which spills water all over.
Care at the End of the World

Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing

Kim, Jina B.

Book

Honorable Mention, 2026 Lora Romero Prize for a First Publication, ASA

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After Transformation

A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity

Maia Kotrosits

Book

Cover of Personal Demons features a painting of a beige cat-like creature caught in branches against a painted black background.
Personal Demons

Possession Narratives of Late Liberalism

Grace Lavery

Book

Cover of Climbing is a grayish purple color. At the top of the cover the word Practices is centered in a handwritten script. The main title is in the middle in the same script and the author's hand printed name is at the bottom.
Climbing

Hil Malatino

Book

The background of the cover of The Personality of Power is black and has images of dozens of tiny individual people in different poses.
The Personality of Power

A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life

Brian Massumi

Book

Cover of Racial Care features an illustration of a dark starry sky background featuring a large, glowing pink rectangular frame in the center.
Racial Care

On Asian American Suffering and Survival

James McMaster

Book

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Between Shadows and Noise

Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined

Amber Jamilla Musser

Book

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How We Write Now

Living with Black Feminist Theory

Jennifer C. Nash

Book

Cover of The Promise of Beauty features a collage-style piece of art. Orange, yellow, and pink flames burst from a spray of roses. Monarch butterflies surround the fire.
The Promise of Beauty

Mimi Thi Nguyen

Book

Honorable Mention, 2026 Award for Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies, AAAS

Cover of Domesticating Brown has painted patches of browns and creams. A semitransparent photograph of a family with young children is overlayed.
Domesticating Brown

Movements of Racial Imagination

Christopher B. Patterson

Book

Cover of Inside the Body of Black Feminism features a piece of art made with paint and oil pastels. There is a black figure against a deep red circle which is outlined in multiple colors.
Inside the Body of Black Feminism

Science, Race, Culture

Samantha Pinto

Book

Cover of Crip Spacetime features a university building with grass in the foreground. A sign indicating a disabled entrance is between the words Crip and Spacetime. It is very far away from the building.
Crip Spacetime

Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life

Margaret Price

Book

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Earworm and Event

Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains

Eldritch Priest

Book

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The Affect Theory Reader 2

Worldings, Tensions, Futures

Gregory J. Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell, editors

Book

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Unthinking Mastery

Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements

Julietta Singh

Book

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Tendings

Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man

Nathan Snaza

Book

Cover of Torn is black and white and features a double exposed photograph of a person holding two thin long tubes up to each eye.
Torn

Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence

Anna M. Moncada Storti

Book

Cover of When Monsters Speak is black with white lettering. There is a photo of a young Stryker on the book. She has long dark hair, is wearing sunglasses, a leather jacket, ripped jeans, and a t-shirt with the transgender symbol visible.
When Monsters Speak

A Susan Stryker Reader

Susan Stryker

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Winner of the 2025 Lambda Award LGBTQ+ Studies

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How We Make Each Other

Trans Life at the Edge of the University

Perry Zurn

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