--- title: "1 Talking Feelings Quotes By Sianne Ngai" description: "1 Talking Feelings quotes by Sianne Ngai. Plus more from Sianne Ngai and more Talking Feelings sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fb/sianne-ngai-12114_books_the-absence-of-attention-to-this-way-of_1356323.jpg" --- > [“The absence of attention to this way of talking about feelings and literature not only is specific to recent literary scholarship on emotion (though it becomes particularly glaring in such a context), but points to a long-standing problem in philosophical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/the-absence-of-attention-to-this-way-of-talking-about-feelings-and/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sianne-ngai/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fb/sianne-ngai-12114_books_the-absence-of-attention-to-this-way-of_1356323.jpg) ## More by Sianne Ngai > [“in my afterword, which discusses the ugliest of all ugly feelings: disgust. As”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/in-my-afterword-which-discusses-the-ugliest-of-all-ugly-feelings/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/rather-than-those-of-more-iconic-figures-such-as-ahab-othello-or-lear/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/both-are-also-examples-of-film-noir-a-postwar-genre-commonly/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/in-other-words-a-positional-parallelism-in-which-sound-is/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/indeed-while-it-is-widely-agreed-that-emotions-play-roles-in-forms-of/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/on-one-hand-the-state-of-being-animated-implies-the-most-general-of/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/in-fact-the-shot-s-cunning-re-objectivization-suggests-just-how/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/in-fact-i-would-suggest-that-what-each-moment-produces-is-the/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/as-an-affective-matrix-devised-as-a-psychological-explanation-for/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/these-audible-demonstrations-that-whether-the-feeling-is-vested-in/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/indeed-as-a-system-of-exchange-based-on-a-highly-codified-feeling/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/the-conversation-to-produce-another-highly-determinate-feeling/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sianne-ngai/) > [“In both cases, the difficulty lies not in the ontological difference between real emotion and virtual emotion, but rather in their proximity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/in-both-cases-the-difficulty-lies-not-in-the-ontological-difference/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/if-ugly-feelings-is-a-bestiary-of-affects-in-other-words-it-is-one/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sianne-ngai/yet-the-point-of-the-black-rapids-agent-s-story-is-precisely-that-an/) [Sianne Ngai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sianne-ngai/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": 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