Seigworth, Gregory J. & Gardiner, Michael E.

Bio Sketch

Gregory J. Seigworth is a cultural theorist of affect and everyday life; Michael E. Gardiner is a sociologist of everyday life and a leading Lefebvre scholar. Together they edited the special issue of Cultural Studies (2004) on everyday life, whose introduction — "Rethinking Everyday Life: And Then Nothing Turns Itself Inside Out" — reads Lefebvre's theory of moments and rhythmanalysis through Leibniz's vinculum substantiale. They matter to Geoffrey's research as contemporary interpreters who push the everyday toward the affective, more-than-human, and biopolitical.

Key Works

• "Rethinking Everyday Life: And Then Nothing Turns Itself Inside Out" (Cultural Studies, 2004) — the everyday as "open totality"; Lefebvre's theory of moments via Leibniz's monad; the critique of cultural studies' "articulation."

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Everyday Life — the everyday as an open totality reconstituted in each moment; the monad as "the moment."
• Noopolitics — the biopolitical/affective register of the everyday's "life."

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Seigworth & Gardiner give Geoffrey a contemporary, affective reading of Lefebvre that connects the everyday to the biopolitical and noopolitical threads in his framework. Their "soft tissue" critique of cultural studies' "articulation" — that it captures only the skeletal connections of the social rather than the immanent, substantial bond of life — is a methodological challenge relevant to how the everyday is set against the spectacular/iconic economy. Their Leibnizian reading of the theory of moments is a distinctive interpretive claim that enriches the wiki's Theories of the Everyday debate.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Rethinking Everyday Life: And Then Nothing Turns Itself Inside Out