Denna uppsats utgår från målningen Vir Heroicus Sublimis från 1950 av den abstrakta expressionisten Barnett Newman och installationen One and Three Chairs från 1965 av konceptkonstnären Joseph Kousuth som en undersökande metod för att förstå intentionen med mitt eget verk Sitta från kandidatutställningen Lampa, Blomma på Konstfack hösten 2020. Arbetet med uppsatsen har haft en undersökande form från början till slut utifrån fria associationer mellan Sitta och de konsthistoriska verken som ingång.

The aim of this thesis is to explore how affect theory can contribute to pneumatology in a way that illuminates how it might inspire action regarding the current climate crisis. To do this, this thesis analyses and discusses how feelings could relate to (human) action to combat climate change. This is done through a discussion of how different pneumatologies that describe the Holy Spirit as acting, and as inspiring action in the world, can be further developed through affect theory. The main material used are Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds (2017) by philosopher of science Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Grave Attending: A Political Theology for the Unredeemed (2020) by theologian Karen Bray. Several different pneumatological voices, representing the variety of pneumatologies present within the Christian tradition, are used to analyse the main material pneumatologically. The conclusions drawn suggest that the combining of affect theory and pneumatology not only points out the similarity of the traits with which they are commonly associated, but they also suggest that it might be possible – and even necessary – to talk of the Spirit as present also in “negative” feelings such as anger or depression. The Spirit can be understood as present in all affects (even if they appear within capitalist contexts), and also as a rewiring of our relationship to become more attuned to how others (human and non-human alike) actually feel. Care, this thesis suggests, is as a very concrete example of how the Spirit can be seen as materialising through affected actions. The Spirit understood as present through affect could also provide a way of speaking of the Spirit as present in the world, in creation, without making it what gives nature its worth and meaning.

Den här essän kommer att behandla ett vanligt förekommande ämne inom förskolan, introduktioner av nya barn och föräldrar. Genom introduktionen måste pedagoger förhålla sig till den nya familjen för att försöka få till anknytning och trygghet. Utgångspunkten ligger i två egen upplevda dilemman där pedagogerna beskriver två olika introduktioner. Den ena introduktionen pågår en längre period. Barnet vill inte släppa sin förälder och är ledsen så fort föräldern försöker lämna honom. Den andra introduktionen går fort, barn och förälder visar glädje. Pedagogerna på den förskolan känner trots det en oro då barnet upplevs gränslöst när hon springer mellan aktiviteter, andra barn och deras föräldrar. Syftet med den här essän är att undersöka hur olika anknytningsmönster och förutsättningar kan påverka introduktionen av nya familjer i förskolan. Den kommer även att belysa pedagogens eller pedagogernas erfarenhet, samt hur viktigt det är med ett gott samarbete. Förskolans miljö och organisation kommer också att undersökas och vilken roll den spelar för barnets introduktion och även för pedagogernas möjlighet att utföra en god introduktion. Detta kommer att göras genom tre frågeställningar, vilka är: Hur kan vi som pedagoger möta Pelle och Almas olika behov? Vilka är förutsättningarna för en god introduktion? Vilka psykologiska fenomen är relevanta för introduktionen? Genom att använda olika begrepp såsom affektteori, affektintoning, trygg bas, säker hamn och anknytning kan den här essän närma sig dessa frågeställningar. Essäns huvudsakliga uppgift är att ge pedagoger, oavsett erfarenhet, olika perspektiv på introduktionen och hur dessa kan tillämpas på nya familjer. I essän beskrivs anknytningsteorins framväxt och graderingar av olika anknytningar. Trygg bas och säker hamn är olika sätt att se hur en anknytning fungerar mellan barnet och föräldern, då det är där den första anknytningen börjar. Under arbetets gång har fokus på barn och föräldrar blivit mer nyanserat och pedagogernas roll undersökts allt mer kritiskt. Genom litteraturstudier och samtal i handledningsgruppen på skolan och med kollegor har vi fått en större förståelse för alla parter som deltar under introduktion till förskolan. En viktig slutsats vi kom fram till är att anknytning, oavsett till vem, inte kan skyndas fram. Den måste få växa fram genom tillit och trygghet. / This essay will treat a common subject within the preschool environment, the introductions of new children and parents. Throughout the introduction, teachers must relate to the new family to try and achieve a connection/attachment and provide security. The starting point is two self-perceived dilemmas where the teachers describe two different introductions. One introduction goes on for a longer period. The child does not want to let go of its parent and is sad as soon as the parent tries to leave it. The second introduction goes fast, children and parents are expressing happiness. The teachers at the preschool nevertheless are concernedwhen the child is perceived boundless as it runs between activities, other children and their parents. The purpose of this essay is to investigate how different connection patterns and prerequisites can affect the introduction of new families to the preschool environment. It will also examine the experience of the teacher or teachers, and the importance of good cooperation between the teachers. The preschool's environment and organisation will also be investigated and the role it plays in the introduction of the child and also for allowing the teachers to carry out a good introduction. This will be done through three questions, which are: How can we, as teachers, meet Pelle and Alma's different needs? What are the prerequisites and conditions needed for a good introduction? What psychological phenomena are relevant to the introduction? By using different concepts such as affect theory, mirroring, safe base, safe heaven and connection/attachment, this essay can approach these issues. Essen's main task is to provide teachers, regardless of experience, with different perspectives on the introduction and how these can be applied to new families. The essay describes the progression of the connection/attachment theory with different levels of connection. Safe base and safe heaven are different ways to see how a connection/attachment works between the child and the parent, as that is where the first connection/attachment is established. During the work, the focus on the children and parents has become more nuanced and the role of teachers is increasingly critical. Through literature studies and discussions in the tutoring group at school and with colleagues, we have gained a greater understanding of all parties involved in the introduction to preschool. An important conclusion we found is that connection/attachment, regardless of who cannot be accelerated. It must grow through trust and confidence.

Current medical discourse and endless media debates on obesity and health have rendered the fat body highly visible. However, the lived experiences of fat have to a large extent remained absent in these discourses. This thesis, therefore, expands and reconceptualizes notions of fatness and fat embodiments. Using semi-structured, in-depth interviewing with individuals of marginalized genders living in Sweden who identify as being fat, the thesis explores (1) the individuals’ perception of fat; how it is seen, felt, and known, (2) how their fat, gendered embodiments shape their identity and their ”being-in-the-world”, and (3) the coping strategies and/or opportunities for resistance available to deal with and/or challenge negative and stigmatizing experiences. Merging phenomenology, affect theory, and temporality theories, findings suggest that fat individuals experience struggles and hatred while navigating a thin world that excludes their fat flesh, resulting in feelings of hyperawareness, shame, and being out of place. Through everyday experiences in this intersubjective world, they are also constructed as being out of time, affecting their access to the present. Navigating conflicting demands of visibility/invisibility, embodying the innocent/guilty fatty, and embracing the body/disembodying from it, the author reflects on the implication of these findings for understandings of fat embodiments as multiple, ambiguous, shifting, and at times contradictory. The thesis offers thickened understandings of the significance of fat embodiments for challenging the ways in which power operates on bodies, for (re)conceptualizing normative notions of fatness, and for fat people themselves.

This thesis examines readership communities on the social media application TikTok, and more specifically videos published under the hashtag SpicyBooks, where users discuss the literary genre of romance. Together with the closely related #BookTok, #SpicyBooks has had a profound impact on the book market. Correspondingly, the formation of readership communities on the app should be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the changes of and within literacy among young adults. This study examines the top 130 featured videos under #SpicyBooks, which are thematically divided into categories analysed in three separate chapters. Taking its cue from affect theory, the thesis examines how the affect of shame is produced, represented and mediated in the videos. Furthermore, the study maps the various reader positions conjured by shame, and surveys how the video creators present themselves in the prevailing ideas and norms of aesthetic taste and social gender that circumscribes the literature discussed in the videos. By focusing on how the social media users and readers represent themselves, rather than how libraries and librarians can make themselves visible on social media, the study proposes a methodological shift, which might begin bridging the generational gap between libraries and their potential users.