Clough (2009) The New Empiricism: Affect and Sociological Method

Sociological methodology is rethought in terms of what cultural critics refer to as infraempiricism that allows for a rethinking of bodies, matter and life through new encounters with visceral perception and pre-conscious affect. Thinking infra-empiricism as a new empiricism at this time means rethinking methodology in relationship to the changing configuration of economy, governance disciplinarity and control in the early twenty-first century.