The Affect of Joe Biden

The Democratic presidential candidate would bring empathy back into the center of American public life.

Dr. Thomas J. West III
6 min readOct 26, 2020

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I think a lot about affect. I muse frequently about the ways in which various aspects of modern life engender feelings in us that are more than just emotions but instead some complicated interplay of emotion, embodiment, and environment. In particular…

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Dr. Thomas J. West III
Reluctant Moderation

Ph.D. in English | Film and TV geek | Lover of fantasy and history | Full-time writer | Feminist and queer | Liberal scold and gadfly