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2024-05-08
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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。
評分在現代社會,作為女性,我們所愛、所追求的人,往往也讓我們痛苦。這是一種結構性的睏境,an impasse,一個無解的睏局:一個女性如果想要戀愛、結婚生育,大概率是要放棄很多的職業發展。我所欲者,變成瞭我的痛苦之源。
評分一個字棒啊。
評分有意思的idea,不過還是有粉飾之嫌,把所有問題歸責於state,而state也不過是體製下遊戲中的one party,we should point our fingers to the whole system, no matter capitalism or socialism.
評分為什麼不把這些話大聲清楚地說齣來,而是寫得這麼隱晦呢?不震耳欲聾,美國人是聽不到醒不來的
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