Detalls del llibre
Arguing that the historical present is perceived affectively before it is understood in any other way, Berlant traces affective and aesthetic responses to the dramas of adjustment that unfold amid talk of precarity, contingency, and crisis. She suggests that our stretched-out present is characterized by new modes of temporality, and she explains why trauma theory?with its focus on reactions to the exceptional event that shatters the ordinary?is not useful for understanding the ways that people adjust over time, once crisis itself has become ordinary. Cruel Optimism is a remarkable affective history of the present.
- Autor/a Laurent Berlant
- ISBN13 9780822351115
- ISBN10 0822351110
- Pàgines 352
- Any Edició 2011
- Fecha de publicación 27/10/2011
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
Ressenyes i valoracions
Cruel Optimism (Alemany, Francès)
- De
- Laurent Berlant
- 9780822351115



