发表于2025-02-02
Cruel Optimism 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 社会学 lauren_berlant 文化研究 emotions Affect 英文版 性别研究 affect
Cruel Optimism provides important new ways of understanding subjectivity, temporality, attachment, and the political in the present moment. Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affective responses to the unravelling of the U.S. and European economies by analyzing mass media, literature, television, film, and video produced in the United States and Europe since 1990. Her incisive interpretations track the emergence of a sense of crisis in relation to conventional notions of the good life and expectations of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and enduring intimacy. Berlant suggests modes of temporality that characterize the present, particularly the impasse and the situation, and she discusses new genres such as the "situation tragedy" and the "cinema of precarity," which reflect the eroding power of the fantasy of the good life and the ways that crisis has become ordinary. Given this "crisis ordinariness," Berlant argues that trauma theory, which focuses on the intense and extraordinary, is not well suited to explaining the impasse of present. Berlant advocates attention to how people register and adjust to the pressures of contemporary life and how these processes unfold over time.
所有的许诺本质上都是痛苦的,但偏偏会被人们感受以乐观的情动形式,然而新自由主义经济构建的好生活幻觉中,处处都是裂痕,这本书就是用来揭示这些裂痕,打开那个粉红色的世界的。文本细读的功夫很足,但思想强度离齐泽克还是差了不少(cruel optimism完全可以看作是意识形态崇高客体的反题)。
评分看了许知远和张艺谋的采访,朴实的老谋子可以当cruel optimism的代言人了。
评分"A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing." Chapter 5 and 7 on politics.
评分Knowing how to access what's unraveling there is one way to measure the impasse of living in the overwhelmingly present moment
评分有意思的idea,不过还是有粉饰之嫌,把所有问题归责于state,而state也不过是体制下游戏中的one party,we should point our fingers to the whole system, no matter capitalism or socialism.
Cruel Optimism 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书