Sincere feelings in hyper-referrential late-Capitalism.

We are moved simply by the act of reframing, moving information.

How is public meaning created?

What is the current state of sincerity?

Lauren Berlant and affect theory

Ethical encounters with the other – willingness to be changed by that encouncer.

Does willingness to be moved or being moved go far enough?

Within the Liberal democratic paradigm is being moved as far as we can go? Or can we be truly changed?

The acts of eating, inhaling, distracted listening, daily trouble the notion of autonomous liberal inviduals who enter into public life by choice. We have the potential to be changed, not just moved, but rarely are.

Eating Anxiety, food allergies, embarassment about poo and periods: controlling what world enters us, hiding what of us enters the world.

Vaping as a gestural engagement with world-substitute.