Placing Feeling

E-motion: don't quite know how the rhetoric of neither/nor moves me.

Affect is a different kind of intelligence about the world, but it is intelligence none-the-less, and previous attempts which have either relegated affect to the irrational or raised it up to the level of the sublime are both equally wrong-headed.

Nigel Thrift, "Intensities of Feeling: Towards a spatial politics of affect" in Geografiska Annaler, Series B, 86, 57-78.

And so for day 1992
27.05.2012