Status Updates From Touching Feeling: Affect, P...

wherein the author employs her magisterial historiographic acumen and beleaguering vocabulary to convince us that quotidian trifles like rubbing our hands against some cloth or listening to music or going poopoo aren’t as academically complex as we think they are.

paranoid and reparative reading is a major concept maggie nelson cites in The Argonauts and i’m thinking paranoid reading is a major descriptor of 2020-2021 discourse i grew up in or maybe the internet

The conventional way of distinguishing shame from guilt is that shame attaches to and sharpens the sense of what one is, whereas guilt attaches to what one does.