Title
Cruel Optimism,Used
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A Relation Of Cruel Optimism Exists When Something You Desire Is Actually An Obstacle To Your Flourishing. Offering Bold New Ways Of Conceiving The Present, Lauren Berlant Describes The Cruel Optimism That Has Prevailed Since The 1980S, As The Socialdemocratic Promise Of The Postwar Period In The United States And Europe Has Retracted. People Have Remained Attached To Unachievable Fantasies Of The Good Lifewith Its Promises Of Upward Mobility, Job Security, Political And Social Equality, And Durable Intimacydespite Evidence That Liberalcapitalist Societies Can No Longer Be Counted On To Provide Opportunities For Individuals To Make Their Lives Add Up To Something.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 Stretchedout Present Is Characterized By New Modes Of Temporality, And She Explains Why Trauma Theorywith Its Focus On Reactions To The Exceptional Event That Shatters The Ordinaryis 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.
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