‘Digital technologies, together with neoliberal economic relations, have given birth to radically new ways of manufacturing and articulating lived experience. I would like to use the (…) works I have mentioned in order to get a better sense of these changes: to look at developments that are so new and unfamiliar that we scarcely have the vocabulary to describe them, and yet that have become so common, and so ubiquitous, that we tend not even notice them any longer. My larger aim to develop an account of what it feels like to live in the early twenty-first century.’

— Steven Shaviro, 2010, ‘Post-Cinematic Affect: On Grace Jones, Boarding Gate and Southland Tales,’ Film-Philosophy, Vol. 14 (1), p. 2.