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.

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.