Abstract

This collection of works takes the form of a visual essay, an attempt to further explore ideas and themes found in Xine Yao’s Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (2021), which presents unfeeling as a method for disrupting colonialism and other oppressive hierarchies. This collection of images comprises a series of digitally rendered collages that encourage and value uncertainty and mystery. The images in this series are speculative, abstract and non-linear, created in ‘opposition to clarity’, with the intention to reflect the idea of ‘unfeeling’ by withholding or refusing easy understanding.

Keywords

unfeeling, Xine Yao, Alex Williamson, Disaffected, collage, uncertainty, hierarchies, colonialism, sentiment, refusal, tender violence, visual art

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