Affective Resonance and Durability in Political Organizing: The case of patients who hack

We explore the role of affect in fuelling and sustaining political organizing case an online type-1 diabetes community. Analysing this community’s interactions, we show that drive towards transformation is triggered by affective dissonance, but dissonance needs to be recurrently enacted through balanced circulation objects pain hope. propose notion resonance illuminate dynamic interplay collectively moderates fosters keeps bodies invested reverberating together around shared goals. Affective points researchers toward fragile complex accomplishment politics represents. Focusing particularly on interactions Twitter, also reflect (digital) spaces how affects circulate. By adopting transposing concepts from theories into context patient communities, further add important insights unique embodied challenges patients with chronic illness face. Highlighting hope induced techno-bodily emancipation intertwine a particular form such healthcare movements, give emphasis communities’ deeply as engines for political, social economic change.