Aesthetic of Our Anger, The: Anarcho-Punk, Politics and Music

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In sum, aesthetic emotions are aesthetically evaluative emotions [ 23] because they influence and are influenced by aesthetic judgment. The aesthetic evaluation of stimuli both informs and results from the experience and regulation of aesthetic emotions. The fact that I have a choice at all, that sidestepping anger is possible for me, is obviously a signifier of the many advantages I was born into or have cultivated. That I am white, for one thing, and therefore don’t automatically have anger projected onto me for voicing disagreement or unhappiness. That I am physically unimposing. That I now have enough material resources to resolve most of the problems which arise in my life without having to rely on others. This last point is relevant because the time in my life when I felt the purest distilled anger was when I was forced to ask others for help and absolutely did not want to share my circumstances with them: when I needed an abortion. The terms and definitions should not label you. So, if you’re not happy with the results, it’s A-Okay to curve them. There are celebrities and social media influencers out there who’re bending the boundaries of fashion. You could be one of them as well. Feel free to combine different styles, think out of the box, and be yourself. Follow these people on social media. Does your anger frequently lead to physical aggression? How severe is the expression of this aggression? Less than 10 percent of normal anger episodes involve physical aggression, so if you’re experiencing it often, that could be a sign that something more serious is at issue.

When compiling Table 1, we limited our search to measures that were developed or considerably modified specifically for studies of aesthetic perceptions and evaluations. As noted above, general emotion measures do not capture the full spectrum of aesthetic emotions. In addition, we only included measures that assess a range of emotions and are not limited to two or three emotion dimensions like valence and arousal. Most notably, this criterion led to the exclusion of the Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance (PAD) scales [ 107]. While the PAD scales have been employed in various studies, including studies on the emotional impact of environments [ 108] and physical attractiveness [ 109], they do not allow for a differentiated assessment of specific aesthetic emotions or emotion categories. However, we included a conceptually similar measure of four affective dimensions by Russell and Pratt [ 104] in Table 1, as this measure contains eight scales that can be analyzed individually. We originally considered developing a questionnaire capturing the whole spectrum of aesthetic emotions that occur in response to the arts (literature, music, visual art, film, etc.) and to aesthetically appealing sights and sounds beyond the traditional arts (advertising, consumer products, natural beauty, etc.). We intended to create a measure that would be encompassing, yet brief enough to be applicable in studies in the field (where aesthetic emotions are typically elicited). Lorde argues that the negative impact of not making use of anger exceeds the dangers of deploying it. “My fear of anger taught me nothing. Your fear of that anger will teach you nothing, also.” Footnote 66 As Hill does in her song, Lorde situates the expression of anger as a remedy for fear. She explains that the deadly cost of anger is not making use of it. In Lorde's formulation, anger does not stand in opposition to happiness but instead facilitates it by forging new political possibilities and modes of belonging. Lorde's command to make use of anger aligns with bell hooks's warning in Killing Rage: Ending Racism that accepting implicit forms of racism as “conditions of our life” “is a form of complicity.” Footnote 67 hooks advocates persistent resistance to subtle indignities in the hope that such pressure will compel individuals to rethink racist behavior. Maybe these make you channel your anger a little too much and it only increases. But in the end, you’re likely to find healing in your soul. Poetry has a way of doing that.Data Availability: The raw data, analysis scripts and outputs, and study materials are available at Open Science Framework ( https://osf.io/q8zv5; doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/Q8ZV5). Focus on a particular muscle group, such as the muscles in one hand. While inhaling deeply and slowly, squeeze the muscles in that group as hard as you possibly can and maintain that tension for 5 seconds. For example, tensing your hand muscles would involve forming a tight fist. Focus on that group of muscles and try not to accidentally tense surrounding muscles.

Inhale slowly through your nose. Focus on filling your belly with air as you breathe in. Let your abdomen relax as you inhale; you should be able to feel your stomach expand. Hold this breath for a few seconds. I did this, too, with my anger at misogynist men. Somewhere along the line, as I got older, it began to feel laughable and absurd that men could consider me as inherently worse, more stupid, less worthy than them. I knew, still, that some of them felt that way but it seemed so ridiculous that I began to assume that men voicing misogyny, the ones in my sphere anyway, must be enacting some nifty irony or linguistic hyperbole for a purpose unclear to me, or were making fun of themselves. It was pleasant to assume this because it meant I no longer needed to feel angry or scared when I heard things which offended me. It’s a foolish mistake, I’ve learned, to presuppose a baseline of shared politics, even if the person is wearing an outfit that looks like yours or reads the same literary magazines as you do or sleeps with the same woman as you do. From 24 a priori emotion categories, we retained 21 categories in the final questionnaire. The 21 A esthemos subscales were largely supported by an EFA with 24 extracted factors and an EFA with seven factors. We combined the feeling of beauty and liking and dropped the disliking and flow/absorption categories. Because the three items intended to measure flow/absorption did not measure the same construct but rather a mixture of self-forgetfulness, energization, and captivation, we did not include the respective scale and items in the final questionnaire. On the one hand, our findings suggested that absorption or immersion may not have a distinct emotional quality and thus may not be an aesthetic emotion to begin with. On the other hand, short scales measuring transportation [ 185], absorption [ 186], and flow [ 187] are available. Researchers interested in immersion could employ one of these scales together with the A esthemos. For example, the American Psychological Association recommends that, if you find yourself calling someone a derogatory name, you imagine it literally. So, if you’re so angry at your boss that you call him a “douchebag,” imagine what it would look like if your boss literally were a douchebag, complete with suit and briefcase. This type of humor may help you feel less tense.

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There are two possible explanations of why the sadness subscale represents a factor of its own rather than loading on the negative emotions factor. On the one hand, this may be due to the inclusion of melancholy in the sadness scale. Melancholy can be considered as an aesthetic emotion that is different from sadness and depression [ 117]. In contrast to the latter, melancholy is a complex emotion that includes the pleasure of indulgent reflection in addition to feelings of sadness, loneliness, and emptiness. Thus, the sadness subscale may measure sadness as a genuine aesthetic emotion. Breathe out slowly through your mouth. Contract your abdominal muscles to push all the air out of your lungs. Second, in contrast to utilitarian emotions [ 32, 33], the intrinsic aesthetic appeal of a stimulus rather than its instrumentality for achieving personal goals elicits aesthetic emotions. This consideration is particularly important when studying aesthetic emotions outside the traditional arts, such as responses to consumer products. For instance, Desmet [ 16] identified six sources of emotions in human-product interactions: (1) the material qualities of the product, (2) personal meanings associated with the product, (3) interactive qualities of using the product, (4) activities enabled or facilitated by the product, (5) ourselves as users or owners of the product, and (6) ourselves when others apply the product to us. It is clear from this list that some emotional reactions to products are linked to the past, present, or future usefulness of the product for achieving goals and thus can be regarded as utilitarian emotions. In contrast, aesthetic emotions do not reflect an interest in using a product but rather an interest in the product per se. Along the same lines, Chatterjee and Vartanian [ 11] have suggested that aesthetic emotions are triggered by objects rather than outcomes, a contrast that may also be reflected in the activity of two dissociable neural systems. Aesthetic, object-related emotions correspond to activity in the liking system, while outcome-related (utilitarian) emotions correspond to activity in the wanting system [ 38, 39].