This article offers a creative disjunctive feminist analysis of affective rhythms within a complexly bordered complex of favelas in Rio de Janeiro. It explores the gendered atmospheric constitution of authority in the favela’s violent border spaces, arguing that authority is partly embodied through a channelling of attention. Attention is conceptualised as involving not just conscious intentions, perceptions and emotions, but also non-conscious rhythms of autonomous affective self-regulation. The article is structured through a tripartite disjunctive form that expresses the bordering of city, body and experience. Drawing on qualitative interview data, quantitative electrodermal activity physiological data and creative writing, the article dwells with the materiality of words and the forms of affects to express material and physiological aspects of emotion and affect in journeys around the internal border-spaces of the city. Adapting the modernist tradition of ‘stream of consciousness’ writing, we style a ‘stream of attention’ form of writing that expresses multiple modes of embodied, conscious and preconscious attention.

本文对里约热内卢一个边界复杂的贫民窟群中的情感节奏进行了创造性的分离式女权主义分析。它探讨了贫民窟暴力边界空间中权威的性别大气构成，认为权威部分体现在注意力的引导上。注意被概念化为不仅涉及有意识的意图、感知和情绪，还涉及自主情感自我调节的无意识节奏。文章通过三部分的分离形式构成，表达了城市、身体和体验的边界。利用定性访谈数据、定量皮肤电活动生理数据和创意写作，文章通过文字的物质性和情感的形式来表达情感的物质和生理方面，以及在城市内部边界空间的旅行中的影响。适应“意识流”写作的现代主义传统，我们设计了一种“注意力流”写作形式，表达了体现、有意识和前意识注意的多种模式。