LAUREN BERLANT CRUEL OPTIMISM PDF FREE
For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. Youre Reading a Free Preview Pages 7 to 15 are not shown in this preview. Lauren Berlant on Intimacy as World-MakingĪn open access version is available from UCL Discovery What other spaces of enjoyment and relationality can we imagine, and how can we build on those attachments and patterns in order to create a world of curiosity and play that is more meaningful than the one we are living in now? This question also has political resonance: which lives count as a (good) life? In our conversation, the private and the public intersect because, as Berlant’s work convincingly demonstrates, in lived experience there is no way of telling them apart. One of the great invitations of their work, then, is to ask its readers what else they need to flourish besides dominant fantasies of the good life. But as a theorist, Berlant is also invested in repurposing intimacy and making it involve all relations that are treated as a matter of course. Published in Sprinkle: An Undergraduate Journal of Feminist. Their method is both critical of normativity without fully rejecting it and understanding of people’s aspirations to it without fully indulging them. Lauren Berlants Cruel Optimism and Lee Edelmans Negative. Srnicek and Williams, Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (PDF). Martine Syms, Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto (web video optional). Contemporary novels by authors such as Sheila Heti, Ottessa Moshfegh and Jenny Offill convey the inertia and passivity Berlant describes in Cruel Optimism. In the book Cruel Optimism (2011), Berlant discusses how remaining attached to such a fantasy becomes an obstacle to flourishing in times when crisis becomes ordinary. May 2 - Prometheanism, Speculation, Human Strike Claire Fontaine, Human Strike Has Already Begun & Other Writings. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good lifewith its promises of upward mobility. Lauren Berlant Cruel Optimism Duke University Press 352 pages, 6 x 9 inches 978 0822350972 hb 978 0822351115 pb. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted.
Their work tracks how people have come to identify life with intimacy, and how the latter came to be privatised in stories of the romantic heteronormative couple as an object of desire for unconflicted personhood: the fantasy that love and life will be transparent, reciprocal and stable. Cruel Optimism attempts to chronicle the dramas of adjustmentthe dramas of consciousness and of mediated lifethat force into being new recognitions of what a life is and ought to be. Intimacy builds worlds, says Lauren Berlant.
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