To understand the profound changes in the modes of public political debate over the past decade, this volume develops a new conception of public spheres as spaces of resonance emerging from the power of language to affect and to ascribe and instill collective emotion.

Anne Fleig is professor of Modern German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin.

Christian von Scheve is professor of Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin.

1. Introduction: Public Spheres of Resonance - Constellations of Affect and Language; 2. It's the Language, Stupid!; Part I: Publics, Politics, and Media; 3. Affective Publics: Understanding the Dynamic Formation of Public Articulations Beyond the Public Sphere; 4. Resonant networks: On Affect and Social Media; 5. The Sentimental Contract: Ambivalences of Affective Politics and Publics; 6. Rhythm, gestures, and tones in public performances: Political mobilization and affective communication; 7. Affective Dynamics of Public Discourse on Religious Recognition in Secular Societies; Part II: Language and Artistic Practice; 8. Put A Spell on You: Poetry, Politics, and Affective Resonance in the Age of the Algorithm; 9. German 'Sprechtheater' and the Transformation of Theatrical Public Spheres; 10. The Alphabet of Feeling Bad: Environmental Installation Arts and Sensory Publics; 11. Affect and Accent: Public Spheres of Dissonance in the Writing of Yoko Tawada; 12. Affect(ive) Assemblages: Literary Worldmaking in Fatma Aydemir's Ellbogen; 13. Theory's Affective Scene: Or, What to Do with Language after Affect.