Abstract. This essay considers the raucous ontology of the feeling body in relation to the expanding field of affect studies. It first shows how psychophys

Abstract. In a little-known essay, Freud defines “transience value” as “scarcity value in time.” This essay draws upon this strange formulation to explore

Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for ...