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is a feeling in the postmodern era which are not devoid of feeling but is better described as a domain of impersonal, hovering free-floating euphoria.

This is not to say that the cultural products of the postmodern era are utterly devoid of feeling, but rather that such feelings which it may be better and more accurate to call 'intensities' are now free-floating and impersonal, and tend to be dominated by a peculiar kind of euphoria to which I will want to return at the end of this essay' (Jameson 1984:64).

is energy as distance in itself. It is not physical but the cause from virtual to actual, that is, from (groundless, spaceless) spatium to (dimensional and representational) extension.

that which individuates itself (Bogue 63) 'that which effects the passage of the virtual into the actual is the intensity (or intensive quality) (Bogue 61). Intensity is energy as distance in itself, 'that explicates itself in qualitieis and quantitites, manifesting itself in physical systems in general as the passage of metastable states into stable states. and it is not a physical force but the cause in the shift from virtual to actual, from (groundless, spaceless) spatium to (dimentional and representational) extension.

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