Cruel optimism
Berlant, Lauren Gail 1957-
Cruel optimism - London Duke University Press 2012 - viii, 342 p. ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780822351115
2011021902
Popular culture--United States.
Optimism--United States.
Progress.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
HN59.2 / .B464 2011
302.22 / BE-C
Cruel optimism - London Duke University Press 2012 - viii, 342 p. ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780822351115
2011021902
Popular culture--United States.
Optimism--United States.
Progress.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
HN59.2 / .B464 2011
302.22 / BE-C