ABSTRACT Under what conditions is social change possible today? The essays comprising this special issue grapple, each in their own way, with this question. Together, the authors contend that any attempt to understand social change must attend to the conditions of possibility for transformations of any kind, as well as the forces that condition us to feel, think, and act (differently). In these opening pages, we trace this underlying thread through to its more explicit appearances in this special issue, that is, to the attention paid by all of the authors to affect and media.

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形成我们的条件：媒体、情感、社会变革

摘要 在什么条件下，今天的社会变革是可能的？组成本期特刊的文章都以自己的方式解决了这个问题。作者们共同认为，任何试图理解社会变革的尝试都必须关注任何类型变革的可能性条件，以及影响我们感受、思考和行动（不同）的力量。在这些开头的几页中，我们将这一潜在线索追溯到它在本期特刊中更明确的表现，即所有作者对情感和媒体的关注。