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Cruel Optimism Lauren Berlant
Publisher: Duke University Press Books

But what makes it cruel is different than what makes something merely disappointing. I have a lot of unfinished Civilization games. Augustine called this kind of thing 'cruel optimism' fifteen hindered years ago, and it's still cruel. The Female Complaint (Duke University Press, 2008, Durham) — has now morphed into a quartet, with Cruel Optimism (2011) addressing precarious publics and the aesthetics of affective adjustment in the contemporary U.S. She says that a relation of cruel optimism exists “when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing”. First is the “object of desire”, which Berlant claims is the optimistic attachment of a “cluster of promises” to an object that represents them. No books ordered, no groceries purchased and not even a slight understanding of the courses I'm about to take. Apr 9, 2012 - Product Descriptionp/pDIVA relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Feb 15, 2013 - All attachment is optimistic. €�Francis Spufford, Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense (p. Oct 5, 2010 - Let's see how badly I can mangle Lauren Berlant's concept (and future book title) of cruel optimism. Nov 1, 2011 - And so, for Berlant, the concepts of love and optimism foreground the sort of difficulties and investments involved in creating social change, understood as the construction of an attachment to a world that we don't know yet, but that we hope will . May 25, 2012 - In recent work Berlant has written about the notion of 'cruel optimism'. A filter, after all, separates out noise from communication and, in so doing, makes communication possible. Jan 15, 2014 - So here we are, one last dying gasp of optimism before the cruel reality of college returns. May 16, 2014 - The team that knocked them out was Atlético Madrid, which is cause for optimism at the Calderón. Most of the games I start, actually, I never finish. Oct 5, 2012 - There are two concepts in Cruel Optimism that are of primary relevance to our discussion.