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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Ugly feelings"”.
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On Rearing an Ugly Head: Joel-Peter Witkin and the Mysticism of the “Ugly Aesthetic”
… it contrasts the notions “aesthetically ugly” (a quality that cannot be objectively identified and studied because it ascribes aesthetic non-worth) with the “ugly aesthetic”, which refers to the “perceptive-felt” experience of an object. By integrating descriptions of this experience of …
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Against against affect (again) : æffect in Kenneth Goldsmith's Seven American deaths and disasters
… to affect, before turning to Sianne Ngai's Ugly Feelings and her concept of “stuplimity.” Stuplimity is an often ignored and not easily articulated affect that arises from boredom and repetition. Stuplimity is critical for Seven American Deaths and Disasters, especially for the “open …
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Thickening Theory: Memoir, Affect, and Fat Feminist Futures
… on "side affects" (2022), Sianne Ngai's "ugly feelings" (2005), Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's "misfitting" (2011), and Sara Ahmed's (2006; 2010) work on orientations and affect, this project aims to strengthen fat epistemology and contribute to a fattening of feminist studies which takes …
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Uterine time and subjectivities: an ethnographic account of the uterus in online body-talk and other articulations of reproductive justice in South African feminist publics
… asks how young people's personal experiences and feelings about the uterus are affected by and mediated through public discourses about reproductive health and justice, intergenerational cultural expectations of the uterine body, and vernacular expressions of body-talk that are amplified and …