20 Nov Emotion

The thing is that we’re nothing without our emotion. We are nothing without our sense of self. We are nothing without our daily struggles – without our macro and micro struggles that may or may not be encompassed in some theory of Everything…

What i loved about the Cascadia Conference this week-end is that the question was posed: is neoliberalism the Theory of Everything?

I want to reframe that and ask – how is emotion not the Theory of Something?

Admittedly, i just watched Life in a Day. I highly recommend that you watch it. Why? Because sometimes we forget the magnitude (especially those of us that are ‘academic’) of the importance of our emotionality. Do we always have to rationalize, theorize, and frame emotionality? Or, can we just, for a few moments, allow for the absolute raw and truthfulness of what it means to be emotional beings?