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Cruel optimism / Lauren Berlant.

By: Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, c2011. Description: viii, 342 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780822350972 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780822351115; 9780822351115 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Optimism -- United States | Popular culture -- United States | Progress | United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-LOC classification: HN59.2 | .B464 2011
Contents:
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.
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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.

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