ISBN:
0822350971
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0822351110
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9781283293051
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9780822350972
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9780822351115
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (viii, 342 p.))
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Cruel optimism
DDC:
302.234097309045
Keywords:
Progress
;
Optimism
;
Popular culture
;
Optimism - United States
;
Electronic books
;
United States Social conditions 1980-
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Ties together political economy and affect in a time of decreased expectations
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction. affect in the present -- Cruel optimism -- Intuitionists: history and the affective event -- Slow death (obesity, sovereignty, lateral agency) -- Two girls, fat and thin -- Nearly utopian, nearly normal: post-Fordist affect in La Promesse and Rosetta -- After the good life, an impasse: time out, human resources, and the precarious present -- On the desire for the political.
Note:
"John Hope Franklin Center book
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Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
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