Library of Unnamed Feelings
A living, poetic, absurdly specific archive of emotions that didn’t exist 10 years ago.
An emotional lexicon for a civilization that’s inventing technologies faster than it can invent language to deal with them.
These names are invented. Stitched together for feelings we never had words for. If you’ve felt one more precisely, and can name it better, send it to me. I’ll credit you like a fellow cartographer of the unseen.
Artificial Obsolescence
Emotional Profile: Rage, grief, disorientation
Filed Under: Displacement, Post-human Anxiety, Dignity Erosion
Defination:
A sudden vaccum, the feeling when you see a machine does what it took you years to master in few seconds, faster and sometimes more accurate than you. You are enraged becasue it's not fair, you are powerless against it, you don't know what to do, it's like a sudden retirement.
“I am utterly disgusted,” Miyazaki said. “If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.”Hayao Miyazaki
Earthly Redemption Numbness
Emotional Profile: Hollow relief, muted grief, sterile comfort
Filed Under: Simulated Intimacy, Artificial Closure, Grief Automation
Definition:
The hollow relief you feel when speaking to an AI-powered version of someone you once loved.
A parent, a partner, a friend, resurrected by code, responsive and kind.
But beneath the comfort lies dissonance: the grief is incomplete, the closure unearned.
Proferrence
From proffer (to offer) + indifference
The emotional gut-punch when an honest gesture of connection is met with total apathy.
Emotional Profile: Self-Hate, shame.
Filed Under: Self-Hate, ashamed, in despair
The quiet sting of watching your connection request rot in silence. Not because you sold too hard, or tried too little, but because the algorithm decided you looked desperate. A humiliation not caused by your words, but by your existence in the wrong digital context. You were being genuine. The system tagged you as noise. And that subtle dismissal eroded your sense of worth.