1) the split in theories of emotion in terms of whether emotions are tied primarily to bodily sensations or to cognition
a) tield primarily to bodily sensations David hume william james
emotions is the feeling of bodily change
b) cognitive view aristotle emotions as judgments
her reading of Descartes' "the passions of the soul"
objects don't excite diverse passions
feelings instead take the shape of the contact we have with objects
love and hate depends upon whether I perceive something as beneficial or harmful
involves thought and evaluation
emotion and intentionality
Emotions are intentional in the sense that they are about something: they involve a direction or orientation towards an object. p7
the object doesn't have to have a material existence
neither inside out or outside in mode because both presume an individual or collective possess emotion
nor the model of emotion contagion for it risks transforming emotion into a property, as something that one has, and can then pass on
p11
how emotion can move through the movement or circulation of objects, such objects become sticky, or saturated with affect, as sites of personal and social tension.
The Performativity of Disgust p. 82-100
The Performativity of Disgust p. 82-100
