In 2018 and 2019, the Bureau of the Royal Household sponsored a festival in Bangkok called Love and Warmth at Winter's End. Framed as a gift to the Thai people from the then uncrowned King Vajiralongkorn, the free event immersed visitors in vintage imagery and experiences sympathetic to royal absolutism, recruiting visitors to experience as pleasant a past era in which the Thai king's power was absolute. Through an analysis of what visitors described as the festival's fun, Thai atmosphere, I develop a political theory of atmospheres, wherein sovereignty can be understood as a claim to constituting the social through a seemingly immaterial (“fun,” “Thai,” in this case) atmosphere enveloping its members.

中文翻译：

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 至高无上的氛围


2018 年和 2019 年，王室事务局在曼谷赞助了一个名为 Love and Warmth at Winter's End 的节日。这项免费活动是当时无冕国王哇集拉隆功送给泰国人民的礼物，让游客沉浸在复古的图像和体验中，同情皇家专制主义，吸引游客体验泰国国王绝对权力的过去时代。通过分析参观者所描述的节日的有趣泰式氛围，我发展了一种氛围的政治理论，其中主权可以被理解为通过一种看似无形的（“有趣”，在这种情况下是“泰国”）氛围来构成社会的主张。