Cruel Optimism
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the U...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham ; London
Duke University Press
2011, ©2011
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| Series: | A John Hope Franklin Center Book
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Affect in the Present
- One. Cruel Optimism
- Two. Intuitionists: History and the Affective Event
- Three. Slow Death (Obesity, Sovereignty, Lateral Agency)
- Four. Two Girls, Fat and Thin
- Five. Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post- Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta
- Six. After the Good Life, an Impasse: Time Out, Human Resources, and the Precarious Present
- Seven. On the Desire for the Political
- Note on the Cover Image: If Body: Riva and Zora in Middle Age
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index