Chris Ingraham shows that gestures of concern, such as sharing or liking a post on social media, are central to establishing the necessary conditions for larger social or political change because they help to build the affective communities that orient us to one another with an imaginable future in mind.

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. The Shape We're In  1
1. Idiot Winds  23
2. Stickiness  51
3. Democratizing Creativity, Curating Culture  78
4. Citizen Artists, Citizen Critics  108
5. Uncommonwealth  133
6. Affective Commonwealths  161
Epilogue. The Poet and the Anthropocene  187
Notes  197
Bibliography  225
Index