In this commentary, we respond to Ruez and Cockayne’s ‘Feeling Otherwise’ and consider what is at stake in debates concerning the moods and modes of critique. There is a tendency in geographical work on affect to privilege affirmation, yet a key question remains as to who benefits from such moods of critique and the kinds of analysis that they afford. We argue that dominant theorisations of affirmation and negativity often elide uncomfortable discussions of power, domination, and violence. We offer a reading of the relations between affirmation and negativity through ‘minoritarian affects’ – a reading that arises in the midst of living through racial capitalism, coloniality, patriarchy, and heteronormativity and which builds an indeterminate future from the fragments of our lives and bodies.

在这篇评论中，我们回应了鲁伊斯和科卡恩的“别样感觉”，并考虑了有关批评的情绪和批评方式的辩论所涉及的问题。地理工作在情感上倾向于确认特权，但是仍然存在一个关键问题，即谁从这种批评情绪及其提供的分析中受益。我们认为，关于肯定和否定性的主流理论常常会忽略关于权力，统治和暴力的不舒服的讨论。我们提供了一种通过“米特勒主义的影响”来肯定和否定之间关系的读物，这种读物是在种族资本主义，殖民主义，父权制和异规范性生活中产生的，它通过我们的生活和身体的碎片建立了一个不确定的未来。