Cruel optimism [electronic resource] /Lauren Berlant.
By: Berlant, Lauren Gail
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BookPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, c2011ISBN: 9780822350972 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780822351115 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Popular culture -- United States | Optimism -- United States | Progress | United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-DDC classification: 302.23/4097309045 Online resources: Full text available from e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2011
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e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2011
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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