much the way the proximity between real and virtual…

“in my afterword, which discusses the ugliest of all ugly feelings: disgust. As”

— Sianne Ngai

“—rather than those of more iconic figures such as Ahab, Othello, or Lear, my focus will be on irritation instead of anger, envy rather…

— Sianne Ngai

“Both are also examples of film noir, a postwar genre commonly understood (even to the point of cliché) as being aesthetically and ideologically driven…

— Sianne Ngai

“In other words, a positional parallelism in which sound is foregrounded as an independent feature (Nathanson, WP, 140), comes to override an ideational parallelism…

— Sianne Ngai

“Indeed, while it is widely agreed that “emotions play roles in forms of action,”22 the feelings in this study tend to be diagnostic rather…

— Sianne Ngai

“On one hand, the state of being “animated” implies the most general of all affective conditions (that of being “moved” in one way or…

— Sianne Ngai

“In fact, the shot’s cunning re-objectivization suggests just how uncertain this surveillance expert’s grasp of the visual field has perhaps been all along.”

— Sianne Ngai

“In fact, I would suggest that what each moment produces is the inherently ambiguous affect of affective disorientation in general—what we might think of…

— Sianne Ngai

“As an affective matrix devised as a “psychological explanation” for revolutionary or political impulses, which reduces social antagonisms to deficiencies of individual character or…

— Sianne Ngai

“these audible demonstrations that whether the feeling is vested in abstract systems or in personal relationships, the world of the novel’s story runs on…

— Sianne Ngai

“Indeed, as a system of exchange based on a highly codified feeling that is continually reproduced and circulated even as it cannot be subjectively…

— Sianne Ngai

“The Conversation to produce another highly determinate feeling—paranoia—that not coincidentally replicates the subjective/objective oscillation in its basic structure: Is the enemy out there or…

— Sianne Ngai

“In both cases, the difficulty lies not in the ontological difference between real emotion and virtual emotion, but rather in their proximity.”

— Sianne Ngai

“If Ugly Feelings is a bestiary of affects, in other words, it is one filled with rats and possums rather than lions, its categories…

— Sianne Ngai

“Yet the point of the Black Rapids agent’s story is precisely that an illusory panic can easily generate a “double” that is actually experienced…

— Sianne Ngai