She is so well read and smart!! (Though my top1 Ngai book is still Ugly Feelings). In one event she talked about the difference between her style of thinking and writing and Lauren Berlant’s style of thinking and writing (反正我磕到了), and it’s just so evident when one gets to read more of her work lol07-28
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Intro. Aesthetic judgement is not about the properties of the object but the relations of subjective capacities and intersubjective predispositions; zany as a performative labor, interesting as a weak evalution with potentials, cute as middle class familial or maternal relation. The commodity is always already permeated with its sentimentality. 12-22
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