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Cruel optimism / Lauren Berlant.
Van Pelt Library HN59.2 .B464 2011
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Optimism.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Optimism--United States.
- Progress.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822350972
- 0822350971
- 9780822351115
- 0822351110
- OCLC:
- 700406574
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