“Affect is perhaps the most difficult plane of human life to define and describe, not merely because it is a-signifying (and contemporary theory is so heavily directed toward signifying practices), but also because there is no critical vocabulary to describe… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“in my afterword, which discusses the ugliest of all ugly feelings: disgust. As” — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“—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 Image
“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 Image
“In other words, a positional parallelism in which sound is foregrounded as an independent feature (Nathanson, WP, 140), comes to override an ideational parallelism at the exact moment the subjective proprietorship of a feeling, ostensibly secured by analogical equivalences between affect, money, and language, is rendered questionable and unstable simply by the amplification of these equivalences.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
