Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-

Cruel optimism [electronic resource] / Lauren Berlant. - Durham : Duke University Press, c2011.

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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Popular culture--United States.
Optimism--United States.
Progress.


United States--Social conditions--1980-

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