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affect
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affect
Psychol the emotion associated with an idea or set of ideas

affect [′af‚ekt]
(psychology)
Conscious awareness of feelings; mood.


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This isn't the first time Lawler's camera has homed in on Hirst's most aggressively marketable art-works, and though the affectlessness of her photographs suggests a scrupulous avoidance of value judgments--in these pictures, ostensibly, a Mondrian drawing equals a Man Ray portrait equals one of Yoshitomo Nara's lamentable little pod people--it's difficult to avoid reading a certain wry ruefulness into the images.
Still, Single Wide works better than much gallery-based deconstruction of cinematic coding, a genre in which bad acting is often justified as Warholian affectlessness and poor plotting passes for metafictional ambiguity.
The traveler in the video installation strongly resembles Chalayan's fashion models: Her blank facial expression mirrors the affectlessness of the runway.
 
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