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Cruel Optimism by Berlant, Lauren is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction: Affect in the Present 10 One: Cruel Optimism 32 Two: Intuitionists: History and the Affective Event 60 Three: Slow Death (Obesity, Sovereignty, Lateral Agency) 104 Four: Two Girls, Fat and Thin 130 Five: Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post- Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta 170 Six: After the Good Life, an Impasse: Time Out, Human Resources, and the Precarious Present 200 Seven: On the Desire for the Political 232 Note on the Cover Image: If Body: Riva and Zora in Middle Age 274 Notes 278 Bibliography 312 Index 336
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- Author
- Berlant, Lauren
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.09 / 5 (416 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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