Affect Theory

The academic discipline that validates your feelings as a complex, publishable socio-political phenomenon, while conveniently ignoring the most basic economic one: being broke.

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Master
01/12/2026

The academic realization that feelings are a form of labor, followed by the crushing irony that studying that labor pays even less than actual emotional work.

zoe
01/12/2026

A prestigious intellectual framework that proves your existential angst is a profound cultural symptom, not just a personal failure to get a real job.

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