Seath’s Reviews > Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity > Status Update

Slow going. It’s very dense but hogwild!

“All the blushing/flushing that marks the skin as a primary organ for both the generation and the contagion of affect seems linked to a fantasy of the skin's being entered - entered specifically by a hand, a hand that touches.”

Man. 🐴

"I blush to say," William James writes to Henry in 1869, "that detailed bulletins of your bowels... are of the most enthralling interest to me" (Correspondence 73).

I don’t have the word to express how excited I am to read a text so dense and purple on the subject of fisting.