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.
發表於2025-03-03
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"A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing." Chapter 5 and 7 on politics.
評分是那種,稍微言及就要觸及我自身存在的attachment,拆解而又有力量,促人以一種更為政治的眼光反省自身的書。
評分快成用來檢驗人類學傢自身絕望程度和批判欲望的網紅概念瞭。在新自由主義許諾的fantasies麵前,甩一個cruel optimism就以為可以“完美闡釋”人的窘境,何嘗不是一種偷懶?重要的應該是闡釋後的建構和解構,重新思考人們如何有livable life並給予其價值,這和批判不矛盾。
評分"A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing." Chapter 5 and 7 on politics.
評分"A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing." Chapter 5 and 7 on politics.
Cruel Optimism 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載