On Feeling

An essay on the resonant field of time — on feeling as the medium through which a life registers its own passage. It treats emotion not as noise laid over experience but as the very way the field is sensed, the instrument by which resonance is detected. Feeling, in this account, is how a person knows they are in or out of phase with their own life and with others. Within the On——ing series it is one of the essays that most directly connects the theory's physical vocabulary to lived interiority, arguing that to feel is already to be measuring coherence, whether or not one has the words for it.

It pairs with On Existing and On Being as the essays that most directly connect the theory's physical vocabulary to lived interiority. Its distinctive claim is that emotion is not decoration on experience but the instrument of it — the way a life detects whether it is in phase with itself, long before it has any words for the reading.

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