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Cruel optimism [electronic resource] / Lauren Berlant.

By: Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2011. Description: 1 online resource (viii, 342 p.) : illISBN: 9780822394716 (electronic bk.); 0822394715 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Popular culture -- United States | Optimism -- United States | Progress | United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-Genre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cruel optimismLOC classification: HN59.2 | .B464 2011Online resources: Click to View
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 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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