ISBN:
978-0-8223-5097-2
,
978-0-8223-5111-5
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 342 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen.
Series Statement:
A John Hope Franklin Center book
DDC:
302.234097309045
Keywords:
Geschichte 1980-2010
;
Popular culture / United States
;
Optimism / United States
;
Progress
;
Gesellschaft.
;
Krise.
;
Fortschrittsglaube.
;
Optimismus.
;
United States / Social conditions / 1980-
;
USA
;
USA.
;
Gesellschaft
;
Krise
;
Fortschrittsglaube
;
Optimismus
;
Geschichte 1980-2010
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:
Includes bibliographical references and index
