“…Considering the latter in greatest detail, he considered comfort as not solely an attribute of an object, but as a complex set of affective resonances that circulate through a variety of tactile, visual and audio media (Bissell 2008(Bissell , 1701. In relation to comfort as affective relation between body and chair, he noted both that bodies have to 'work with chairs' (Bissell 2008(Bissell , 1703 to effect the sensation of comfort, and that the chair 'also acts on the body, thus mediating the nature of affect experienced through the body' (Bissell 2008(Bissell , 1705. Importantly, Bissell contended that the act of sitting, far from being a subordinate state so banal as to be overlooked, is 'more often than not, the condition of possibility for the conduct and continuation' of key everyday tasks, such as eating, driving, typing, and so on (Bissell 2008(Bissell , 1703.…”