Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity Book

Good CTA reading, surprisingly'first on a failed trip to devon, then on The Commute. i'd read paranoid reading and reparative reading before (on my postvirgilian epic professor's recommendation, weirdly'he also recommended the book as a whole') but man is it still so good. pretty much in a more rigorous and also more generous way what lisa ruddick's point essay "when nothing is cool" is about, which no one seemed to recognize at the time (that need to come across as never being surprised, that sort of paranoia, is pretty much what 'cool,' also, is all about)...that cross between open-heartedness and rigor, how rigor requires openness/generosity (fullness, expansiveness, in order to get somewhere particular and fine-tuned), is, i'm sure, what's unique about sedgwick, and it's funny to see to what extent that gets across to other readers, though also a silly futile exercise. also the henry james chapter! almost reads similarly to henry james, that similar belief in dipping into'no, going fully into the deep end of'difficulty to get somewhere good and worthwhile, somewhere unexpectedly welcoming.