“The asymmetry of power that cuteness revolves around is another compelling reminder of how aesthetic categories register social conflict. There can be no experience of any person or object as cute that does not somehow call up the subject’s sense… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“in my afterword, which discusses the ugliest of all ugly feelings: disgust. As” — Sianne Ngai Copy Share
“—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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“In both cases, the difficulty lies not in the ontological difference between real emotion and virtual emotion, but rather in their proximity.” — Sianne Ngai Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
