Cruel Optimism book

Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant

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

Aug 7, 2013 - Crisis is not exceptional to history or consciousness but a process embedded in the ordinary that unfolds in stories about navigating what's overwhelming. Jan 19, 2010 - Earlier today Thierry Henry faced a FIFA disciplinary committee for the deliberate hand ball in the France v. May 16, 2014 - The team that knocked them out was Atlético Madrid, which is cause for optimism at the Calderón. Jul 25, 2013 - She is the author of Cruel Optimism, which examines the affective and aesthetic implications of the recent disintegration of the promise of the “good life” in the United States and Europe. Dec 15, 2012 - Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago, author of Cruel Optimism. Jan 5, 2013 - Main argument: the embrace of the digital is a form of what Lauren Berlant has called cruel optimism: “when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing”. Mar 10, 2013 - I've also been pondering how this factors into the economics of my situation in relation to Lauren Berlant's book "Cruel Optimism". Mar 22, 2013 - There's a cruel irony in the placement at the foot of this interview of an ad promising weight-loss by following “this weird old tip” … Cruel Optimism o seu último livro é uma densa aventura em me vou envolvendo nestes dias. Nov 1, 2012 - Cruel Optimism is, then, like all phrases, a deictic—a phrase that points to a proximate location. €Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism 978-0-8223-5111-5_pr. 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. Jan 9, 2013 - As Lauren Berlant points out, the hardest thing about cruel optimism is that, even as it destroys us in the long term, it sustains us in the short term. Nov 4, 2012 - You care too much Gave me the worst you could afford Cared enough And starved me just It isn't hate It's you You care To see me live, live long toward What? What, do you expect a thank you? Nov 12, 2013 - To me it's not so much a matter of hope or not hope- as Lauren Berlant puts it -optimism can be cruel optimism.