Affect theory suggests that imagining different futures for cities begins by feeling the present differently. This article considers the political potential of the affective register in the context of gentrifying Mexico City, where the 2017 earthquake, as a crisis-event, burst onto the ongoing crisis-ordinary of gentrification-based displacement. I argue that this convergence of crises opened an affective impasse, or a time and space lived in excess of predictability. This affective impasse both interrupted business-as-usual gentrification and channeled historical affects across 32 years from the 1985 earthquake, and in turn generated new political energies. Informed by affect theory and trauma studies, I use qualitative data to invite the reader into the impasse and observe its affective dynamics. The empirical sections describe the entry points to the impasse, the affective activities that subjects engage in there, and the role of historical trauma in reshaping the atmospheres that emerge from this space. The resulting research investigates how affective ways of navigating an impasse offer the potential to reshape ongoing struggles against displacement. This builds on recent work in urban geography that uses psychoanalysis and affect theory to understand gentrification’s complexities, contradictions, and ambivalences.

情感理论表明，为城市设想不同的未来始于对现在的感受有所不同。本文考虑了在绅士化的墨西哥城背景下情感登记的政治潜力，在该市，2017年的地震作为危机事件爆发到了持续的危机中，以绅士化为基础的流离失所。我认为，危机的趋同造成了情感上的僵局，或者时间和空间超出了可预测性。自1985年地震以来的32年间，这种情感僵局既中断了一切照旧的高档化，又影响了历史影响，反过来又产生了新的政治活力。受到情感理论和创伤研究的启发，我使用定性数据邀请读者陷入僵局并观察其情感动态。实证部分描述了僵局的切入点，主体在其中陷入的情感活动以及历史创伤在重塑从该空间出现的气氛中的作用。最终的研究调查了如何解决僵局的情感方式如何重塑正在进行的反对流离失所的斗争。这是基于最近在城市地理学中进行的工作，该工作使用了心理分析并影响理论来理解绅士化的复杂性，矛盾性和矛盾性。