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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-2021
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
1980-2020
Geschichte 1980-2010.
Popular culture > United States.
Optimism > United States.
Progress.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Optimisme > États-Unis.
Progrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Media Studies.
Optimism.
Popular culture.
Social conditions.
Fortschrittsglaube
Gesellschaft
Krise
Optimismus
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1980-
United States.
e-books.
Livres numériques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. affect in the present
  • Cruel optimism
  • Intuitionists: history and the affective event
  • Slow death (obesity, sovereignty, lateral agency)
  • Two girls, fat and thin
  • Nearly utopian, nearly normal: post-Fordist affect in La Promesse and Rosetta
  • After the good life, an impasse: time out, human resources, and the precarious present
  • On the desire for the political.

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