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Assignment 13

In the article, “Affective Economies” written by Sarah Ahmed, she discusses how hate attends to our emotions within our economic structure. Emotions play a crucial role within everyones everyday lives, Whether its talking about a sad show you saw, or something that made you laugh. In the beginning of her article, the narrative talks about how it is the love for the nation that makes other people hate one another. In this article, Sarah Ahmed want people to realize that people love to hate one another. There is a huge correlation between loving and hating. In today’s economy you need to have a job in order to earn money. Most people will get a job with something they have interest in doing. They will end up loving their job, but if the economy goes to dumps and people start getting laid off and loosing their jobs, it causes fear to rise. When fear of losing something you have happen, it can cause hatred. You can start hating the people who will take your job etc. Some people can say that our emotions are the problems, not the individual. Ahmed state on page 119, “in such affective economies, emotions do things, and they align individuals with communities- or bodily space with social space- through they very intensity of their attachments. Rather seeing emotions as psychological dispositions, we need to consider how they work, in concrete and particular ways, to mediate the relationship between psychic and the social, and between the individual and the collective.” I agree with this statement here. In oder for love and hate to come about, you need to take a step back and look at your emotions and how they can contribute to your everyday life, if your emotions are a positive impact or a negative impact. Your emotions become a property when you discuss how a certain thing may make you feel.