Berlant, Lauren
Cruel Optimism
- ISBN 13:
- 9780822351115
- author:
- Berlant, Lauren
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 368
- Dimensions:
- 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
- Genre:
- Media studies
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant offers a bold new perspective on our present. Since the 1980s, the social-democratic promise of postwar societies in the US and Europe has retracted, leaving people attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life. Berlant argues that our perception of the historical present is affectively charged before it's understood intellectually. She explores how people respond emotionally to the dramas of adjustment unfolding amidst discussions of precarity, contingency, and crisis. This affective history sheds light on new modes of temporality and why trauma theory may not be useful for understanding long-term adjustments. By examining our stretched-out present, Berlant provides a remarkable insight into the ways we navigate uncertainty and crisis.
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