Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling hero image.
Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling
The theme of ‘unfeeling’ promised an urgent exploration of what it is to be human after the enforced separation, dislocation, and artificially recreated forms of social interaction that were prevalent during the pandemic and continue to be so. It is almost that we have discovered how to be posthuman. Unfeeling, we suggest, dislocates the internal subjective experience and the external expression thereof in a culturally legible manner. This perhaps underlines the contingent and culturally motivated way in which we experience, read, and express ‘feelings’ intersubjectively. ‘Feeling otherwise’ is an important and empowering marker of difference and agency which threads through our articles, creative writing, and reviews (Yao 12). This standpoint can operate to interrogate and interpret (white) cultural and political hegemony with its insistence on the social legibility and necessity for ‘appropriate’ emotions and responses. In this issue, our writers explore how unfeeling can engender a defence mechanism; it offers to promote healing by setting aside hurt feelings and refusing to continue to incorporate or experience them; it creates a refusal to be complicit with this socio normative control. 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/MT.issue.122


Editorial Introduction

Unfeeling
Unfeeling

Sarah Bethany Edwards, Sarah Chambre, William Burns, Damian Walsh, Daniel Lewis and Miriam Helmers

2022-11-18 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Academic article

I Feel, Therefore I Am: Trauma, Memory, and Posthuman Liberation in Blade Runner (1982) and WestWorld (2016)
I Feel, Therefore I Am: Trauma, Memory, and Posthuman Liberation in Blade Runner (1982) and WestWorld (2016)

Dylan Phelan

2022-11-18 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

To Feel or Not to Feel: Dissociative Feminism and Modalities of Unfeeling in 21st-Century Literary Fiction
To Feel or Not to Feel: Dissociative Feminism and Modalities of Unfeeling in 21st-Century Literary Fiction

Cleo Miki

2022-11-17 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Modernist Mapping and Post-postmodern Feeling: The Rhizomatic Framework of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Modernist Mapping and Post-postmodern Feeling: The Rhizomatic Framework of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

George Kowalik

2022-11-17 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

T. S. Eliot: Close Reading, and the Question of Feeling
T. S. Eliot: Close Reading, and the Question of Feeling

Rowena Gutsell

2022-11-17 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Unfeeling, politics and race in the Balkans in the 1930s: Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Unfeeling, politics and race in the Balkans in the 1930s: Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Nicola Dimitriou

2022-11-17 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Unfeeling, Unflinching, and ‘Superbly Uncuddly’: Muriel Spark’s “The Desegregation of Art”
Unfeeling, Unflinching, and ‘Superbly Uncuddly’: Muriel Spark’s “The Desegregation of Art”

Joshua Lok

2022-11-17 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Vegetal Affect: Disruptive Unfeeling in the Face of Gender Oppression in Han Kang's The Vegetarian
Vegetal Affect: Disruptive Unfeeling in the Face of Gender Oppression in Han Kang's The Vegetarian

Emily Jane Cluett

2022-11-17 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Book review

'I didn't bring my heart with me' : Unfeeling as a mode of resistance in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives.
'I didn't bring my heart with me' : Unfeeling as a mode of resistance in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives.

Alisha Mathers

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

"Here we go into the grey": Moses Sumney's Song Writing of opacity in grae (2020).
"Here we go into the grey": Moses Sumney's Song Writing of opacity in grae (2020).

Anna De Vivo

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Automation and Diminutions in Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings
Automation and Diminutions in Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings

Loma Sylvana Jones

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

‘Narcolepsy in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation
‘Narcolepsy in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Nicholas Griffin

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

‘Sentimental Cultures, Political Fantasy, and Unfeeling’
‘Sentimental Cultures, Political Fantasy, and Unfeeling’

Paula Barba Guerrero

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Die, cry, hate: the unfeeling of the unwilling Black surrogate mother in Luster and Such a Fun Age

Amal Abdi

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Creative writing

Anniversary
Anniversary

Debakanya Haldar

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Chronotopes of Power
Chronotopes of Power

Mike Piero

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

FAQs pt 4
FAQs pt 4

Frederick White

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Mackenzie at the Bow
Mackenzie at the Bow

Erin Lee Mock

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

My Body Was Never Made
My Body Was Never Made

Tara Propper

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Siblings in America
Siblings in America

Jessica Mintzes

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

We may have changed since your last visit

Freya Onions

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Window in the Morning
Window in the Morning

Leonore Wilson

2022-11-29 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Artwork Submission

A Pixel Imperfect World
A Pixel Imperfect World

Jennie Gilman

2022-11-17 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

An Alien Perspective
An Alien Perspective

Naveen Nambiar

2022-11-17 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Hierarchies of Feeling
Hierarchies of Feeling

Alex Williamson

2022-11-28 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Nothing New
Nothing New

Sylee Gore

2022-11-28 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

St Sebastian

Joseph Nockels

2022-12-19 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Podcast: 'Gravity', an original play by Katie Caden

Gravity
Gravity

Katie Caden

2022-11-26 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

Contributor Biographies

Author Biographies
Author Biographies

Sarah Bethany Edwards and Sarah Chambre

2022-11-28 Volume 14 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Unfeeling

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