Berlant On the Inconvenience of Other People

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2305-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten

Reihe: Writing Matters!

Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world, focusing on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berlant, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note to the Reader vii
Preface. What Now? ix
Introduction. Intentions 1
1. Sex. Sex in the Event of Happiness 31
2. Democracy. The Commons: Infrastructures for Troubling Times 75
3. Life. On Being in Life without Wanting the World: No World Poetics, or, Elliptical Life 117
Coda. My Dark Places 149
Acknowledgments 175
Notes 177
Bibliography 205
Index 231

Über Autor(innen)

Lauren Berlant (1957–2021) was George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author and coauthor of many books, including The Queen of America Goes to Washington City; The Female Complaint; Cruel Optimism; Sex, or the Unbearable; and The Hundreds, all also published by Duke University Press.