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Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant

Cruel Optimism Lauren Berlant ebook
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780822351115
Page: 352

Oct 17, 2013 - There's this idea in Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism that the personal and the intimate are different-- that a behavior or conversation can be personal without being intimate. Dec 27, 2013 - Lauren Berlant, in her profoundly focused 2011 text Cruel Optimism, outlined what she called the slow death of the American worker who must fight for life with the means of the cruelly ironic living-wage. Oct 18, 2012 - A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Mar 6, 2014 - You can download slides from our presentation at the Health and Human Sciences Post Graduate Research Group (5.3.14) here: Big Society - Cruel Optimism. Feb 26, 2014 - The following is a summary/response I wrote regarding Lauren Berlant's "Cruel Optimism" chapter in The Affect Theory Reader: This chapter blew my mind, so it is important to define some key terms from the outset. An affective portrait of the 99%. Feb 27, 2012 - Lauren Berlant's latest book, Cruel Optimism, is less brutal analysis than a dark, lush still-life of American fantasies and our Quixotic lunges toward them. Participants are encouraged to read both works. Jan 13, 2013 - I have been struggling to find a language to describe what I experienced as the familiar violence of a field I desire and claim, to name that stubborn attachment Lauren Berlant describes as “cruel optimism” (Berlant 2011). [3] Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 'More on Power/Knowledge', in Outside in the Teaching Machine, Routledge: New York, 1993, p 41. May 4, 2012 - Cruel Optimism, or Make Extra Just In Case. Jan 29, 2014 - We will discuss Kathi Weeks's The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries, and Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism. May 13, 2013 - [1] Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism, Duke University Press, Durham, 2011, p 6.