Cruel optimism /
Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-
Cruel optimism / Lauren Berlant. - Durham : Duke University Press, c2011. - viii, 342 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-326) 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.
9780822350972 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822351115 9780822351115 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Optimism--United States.
Popular culture--United States.
Progress.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
HN59.2 / .B464 2011
Cruel optimism / Lauren Berlant. - Durham : Duke University Press, c2011. - viii, 342 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-326) 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.
9780822350972 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822351115 9780822351115 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Optimism--United States.
Popular culture--United States.
Progress.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
HN59.2 / .B464 2011