Tracking the sociomaterial traces of affect at the crossroads of affect and practice theories

The authors wish to express gratitude to Angelo Benozzo who supported the authors’ writing process with his friendship and encouragement. The authors would like to thank also the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments. Naturally they are not responsible for the particular form that the arguments take here. This paper is a collaborative effort by the five authors, nevertheless if for academic reasons individual authorship has to be attributed, Silvia Gherardi wrote the sections “The encounter between the turn to practice and the turn to affect,” “The in-between-ness of bodies and trans-corporeality,” and the “Conclusion”; Annalisa Murgia wrote the sections “Second Episode: the transformative power of affect,” and the “Discussion”; Elisa Bellè wrote the section “First episode: resonance of boundaryless bodies”; Anna Carreri wrote the “Introduction,” and Francesco Miele wrote the section “Affect and empirical research: a methodological note.”