发表于2024-12-22
Cruel Optimism 2024 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.
一个字棒啊。
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the fantasy bribe of the good life...
评分新自由主义作为新的经济意识形态带来的高风险生活(precarity),需要不断面对失控的生活为残忍,而幻想正常的生活(normativity)并且竭力追求这种生活则为乐观精神。就像斯嘉丽那句"tomorrow is another day",这是种内心的本能驱使(visceral intuition),将失控的生活拉回正常的轨道上。在Berlant看来,这正是情感与历史的交叉点,是在结构中找到突围的所做的努力,借鉴Sedgwick所说的痛苦挣扎也是一条通往生存快乐的路。第二章Berlant提出了habit, genres, crisis ordinary等一系列概念用来说明在normativity中anti-normativity。
Cruel Optimism 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书