Affects and effects of "13 Reasons Why"

Based on a feminist materialist approach and affect theory, this paper will take the Netflix-series 13 Reasons Why and the heated public disputes about the series as a way to explore public notions of youth and youth culture as well as contemporary forms of subjectivity and agency. Starting from an understanding of agency as response-ability, that is the potential to make (new) connections with bodies, things, ideas etc., the focus is, firstly, on processes of becoming; secondly, the forces of affect that become effective as affecting and being affected in the power relations that characterize specific moments, will be explored as gendered affective dynamics. The different media assemblages in the series -from digital media to old-fashioned audio tapes - will be discussed regarding their opposite affective effects.