Ethics and affects: the medium and the message of social detachment
This final extended panel examines the ethical and affective role of detachment as an aspect of social interaction. Examining the diverse contexts of new media, hospitality practices, mythological, ritual and ordinary action the paper presenters seek to explore the different kinds of labour that forms of social and personal detachment require. Prescriptions on valorised forms of detachment as an aspect of social interaction point us towards alternative theories of relatedness that take seriously the affective and ethical concerns of the impersonal.
