Paper short abstract:

This paper discusses affects in relation to material culture at the occasion of the parting of an estate.

Paper long abstract:

At the parting of an estate, affects usually run high among the heirs. The parting of an estate will here be the empirical point of departure for discussing the benefit of using perspectives from "the affective turn" within cultural theory. In order to understand the workings of material culture, the Heideggerian concepts of "worlding","gathering" and "assertion" will be central. The very event for parting the estate will be seen from Hannah Arendt's theory of "space of appearance". The art of passing on and sharing of summer-houses will be one of the arenas for discussing the benefits of this and similar approaches.