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Gwen
is on page 208 of 432
From page 208: Quicksand's use of irritation to challenge the assumption that, in order to politically or aesthetically matter, feelings must be located below the surface or "under the skin" plays a key role in furthering this polemical assertion.
— Apr 05, 2026 11:50PM
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Gwen
is on page 194 of 432
Half-way through Chapter 4: Irritation hehehhehhehe It's also an affective reading of irritation in the novel Quicksand .
— Apr 05, 2026 10:48PM
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Gwen
is on page 174 of 432
Finished "Chapter 7: Paranoia" earlier today but didn't get to update here because (1) I skipped three chapters and going back to them just now, and (2) power was out the whole day in town. AAAAAAAAAA. Ngai's critical/ theoretical tone is growing on me---that's a win!!
— Mar 26, 2026 09:32AM
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Gwen
is on page 168 of 432
From the same page It (the film, Single White Female , depicts female compoundedness as actively strengthened through these disidentificatory and antiproprietory practices, if not directly by the ugly feeling that inspires them.
— Mar 24, 2026 11:39PM
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Gwen
is on page 168 of 432
In contrast, the film mobilizes envy to demonstrate the capacity of female subjects to form coalitions based on something other than 'similar love for the same object,' to emulate attributes without identifying with them, and to function as examples that do not properly exemplify, actively defining and redefining the category they would seem only to passively reflect."
— Mar 24, 2026 11:38PM
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Gwen
is on page 126 of 432
"the kind of exaggerated emotional expressiveness I call animatedness seems to function as a marker of racial or ethnic otherness in general" (94)
— Mar 19, 2026 09:17AM
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Gwen
is on page 89 of 432
As I start the second ugly feeling---animatedness---later, I just want to say that I do feel stupid reading such a dense theory book. Hahaha! WTF. But I guess that's all part of the experience that is, RESEARCH. So help me God.
— Mar 04, 2026 12:33AM
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Gwen
is on page 88 of 432
...tone's generality and abstractness should not distract us from the fact that it is always "about" something... [The Confidence Man], whose atonal tone we have seen to be ultimately "about" the simultaneously orderly and noisy character of tone itself.
— Mar 03, 2026 11:36PM
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