The turn to affect needs to assume a stable discursive positionon its importance in relation to the literature on practice, nevertheless theissue is not whether affect is important, but why and how. In fact, allagency unfolds with a certain degree of affect and almost all socialpractices affect their participants in various degrees. Ordinary affects arethe varied capacities to affect and to be affected that give everyday life thequality of a continuum becoming. Their signiÞcance lies in the way theypick up the intensities that they build and in the thoughts and feelings theymake possible, rather than in ÔmeaningsÕ encapsulated in an order ofrepresentations. The question that the article addresses is therefore how topreserve and report on ordinary affects while studying working practices?Through two episodes from Þeldwork (an unbearable sweet music andcruel optimism) I argue that paying attention to affects is an active processof atmosphere attunement to the various embodiments of the Þeld - theembodied researcher and the embodied practitioners - with theirattachments to the object of their practices. The turn to affect may enrichthe turn to practice with a sensibility for a form of embodied, affectiveknowing that put into discussion how research is written.