Abstract
Feeling
Highlights
Sometimes I don’t know what to feel
Our prime minister smiles and coos, lulling us into complacency; from a distance, the English appear flabbergasted by Brexit or shouting and ready to draw swords
Lauren Berlant writes that visceral responses are a trained thing.[2]
Summary
Sometimes I don’t know what to feel. There’s too much emotion in the air. What I want to think about is not feeling. I don’t mean a lack of empathy or disengagement: but what and who evokes a prescribed emotional response (and why).
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