"It is through the intensification of pain sensations that bodies and worlds materialise and take..."

“It is through the intensification of pain sensations that bodies and worlds materialise and take shape, or that the effect of boundary, surface and fixity is produced. To say that feelings are crucial to the forming of surfaces and borders is to suggest that what ‘makes’ these borders also unmakes them. In other words, what separates us from others also connects us to others.”

- Sarah Ahmed; The Cultural Politics of Emotion (via notmanetstype)