Counting the Affects: Discoursing in Numbers.

ESSAYS; HUMAN-computer interaction; MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology; EMOTIONS; COMPUTATION laboratories; SOCIAL history; NINETEENTH century; MATHEMATICS; MECHANIZATION; RESEARCH

The article presents an essay on human-affective machine technologies, which are new modes of interactions between computers and humans at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Affective Computing Laboratory. A technology which was considered by the author to have been developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author examines the genealogy of numeral transformation of emotions. He begins with survey of the meanings of emotions, its mechanization and vulgarization in its scientific study and its repression in the post-Victorian era of emotionology.