Berlant Cruel Optimism

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9471-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Ties together political economy and affect in a time of decreased expectations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berlant, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction. Affect in the Present 1

1. Cruel Optimism 23

2. Intuitionists: History and the Affective Event 51

3. Slow Death (Obesity, Sovereignty, Lateral Agency) 95

4. Two Girls, Fat and Thin 121

5. Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promese and Rosetta 161

6. After the Good Life, an Impasse: Time Out, Human Resources, and the Precrious Present 191

7. On the Desire for the Political 223

Note on the Cover Image: If Body: Riva and Zora in Middle Age 265

Notes 269

Bibliography 303

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship, both also published by Duke University Press, as well as The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life. She the editor of the books Intimacy; Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion; and (with Lisa Duggan) Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest.