Emotion gives psychopolitics efficient access below conscious reflection

Evidence

These behaviors also elude the conscious mind. The machines capture the nanosecond of disgust that precedes a rapid-fire sequence of anger, comprehension, and finally joy on the face of a young woman watching a few frames of film, when all she can think to say is “I liked it!” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 882 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

As was so well brought to light by Gilbert Simondon, our emotions express the state of the transindividual relation that unites us with our environment: they serve as a thermometer for measuring the state of our attentional ecosystem. Contrary to the cliché which idealizes the teacher, particularly at higher levels, as a paragon of rationality, and contrary to the method of competitive selection which, in French establishments, favours disciplined knowledge without granting the least pertinence to emotional sensitivity, the fate of teaching is in play at a more fundamental level than that of information transmission and reasoning: in the ability of each participant to know how to pay attention to their affects, which are always necessarily shared since they emanate from the relations established between the preindividual portions of their personalities. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 266 (#expands, via linked claim)

Good arguments alone will not change anyone’s mind who is getting emotional benefits from a worldview. As long as he/she gains security, support, and belonging from the belief, it will be maintained until there is a better substitute or a personal experience shakes the conviction. The influence of the environment often only has a long-term effect. It is important to stay in touch to prevent the relative from staying exclusively in an ideological echo chamber. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 393 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Psychopolitics may intervene in psychic processes faster than free will — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 144; Emotional capitalism exploits emotions’ fleeting performativity, which feelings lack — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 98; Emotions function as thermometers of the attentional ecosystem between persons — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 266 (+13 more)

Related

• Emotions are short-lived and exploitable; feelings endure and resist exploitation (similarity 0.84)
• Power steers emotions to govern action below conscious awareness (similarity 0.83)
• Emotional capitalism exploits emotions’ fleeting performativity, which feelings lack (similarity 0.82)
• Machines can capture emotional reactions the subject cannot consciously report (similarity 0.79)
• Emotions function as thermometers of the attentional ecosystem between persons (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Machines can capture emotional reactions the subject cannot consciously report #corroborates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 882
• Emotions function as thermometers of the attentional ecosystem between persons #expands (0.82) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 266
• Emotional benefits sustain worldviews that good arguments cannot dislodge #corroborates (0.82) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 393
• Implicit measures reveal biased feelings people consciously disavow #exemplifies (0.80)
• Emotional content propagates ideas more than factual accuracy does #expands (0.80)
• Emotional categories override objective evidence in social judgment #corroborates (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 351
• Emotionality aids rather than undermines democratic deliberation #contradicts (0.78)
• Emotions are performative and goal-oriented while feelings need no intentional object #complicates (0.78) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 97
• Ideological labels derive their power from emotional evaluation when cognitive content is thin #expands (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2005
• Emotion overturns individuated structures only through communal resonance. #expands (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 273
• Calm functions as a form of political resistance against shock-induced disorientation #complicates (0.72) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 747
• Emotions can belong to groups rather than only to individuals #expands (0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2261