Lauren Berlant

Cruel Optimism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 160mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1110g
• ISBN-13: 9780822350972
• ISBN-10: 0822350971
• Artikelnr.: 33397097

Autorenporträt

Lauren Berlant

Inhaltsangabe

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