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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 social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life -- with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy -- despite evidence that liberal-capitalist 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 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. -- Publisher description During The Civil War, Cities, Houses, Forests, And Soldiers' Bodies Were Transformed Into Dead Heaps Of Ruins, Novel Sights In The Southern Landscape. How Did This Happen, And Why? And What Did Americans--northern And Southern, Black And White, Male And Female--make Of This Proliferation Of Ruins? Ruin Nation Is The First Book To Bring Together Environmental And Cultural Histories To Consider The Evocative Power Of Ruination As An Imagined State, An Act Of Destruction, And A Process Of Change. Megan Kate Nelson Examines The Narratives And Images That Americans Produced As They Confronted The War's Destructiveness. Architectural Ruins--cities And Houses--dominated The Stories That Soldiers And Civilians Told About The Savage Behavior Of Men And The Invasions Of Domestic Privacy. The Ruins Of Living Things--trees And Bodies--also Provoked Discussion And Debate. People Who Witnessed Forests And Men Being Blown Apart Were Plagued By Anxieties About The Impact Of Wartime Technologies On Nature And On Individual Identities. The Obliteration Of Cities, Houses, Trees, And Men Was A Shared Experience. Nelson Shows That This Is One Of The Ironies Of The War's Ruination--in A Time Of The Most Extreme National Divisiveness People Found Common Ground As They Considered The War's Costs. And Yet, Very Few Of These Ruins Still Exist, Suggesting That The Destructive Practices That Dominated The Experiences Of Americans During The Civil War Have Been Erased From Our National Consciousness.--publisher Website. Introduction. American Ruins -- Our Own Pompeii: Ruined Cities -- Lone Chimneys: Domestic Ruins -- Battle Logs: Ruined Forests -- Empty Sleeves And Government Legs: The Ruins Of Men -- Conclusion. The Ruins Of History. Megan Kate Nelson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "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 social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life -- with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy -- despite evidence that liberal-capitalist 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 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."-- Résumé de l'éditeur "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 social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life--with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy--despite evidence that liberal-capitalist 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 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." --Publisher's description

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 social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life—with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy—despite evidence that liberal-capitalist 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 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.

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 social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life—with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy—despite evidence that liberal-capitalist 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 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. 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. Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affective responses to the unraveling of the U.S. and European economies by analzying mass media, literature, television, film, and video. Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affective responses to the unraveling of the U.S. and European economies by analyzing mass media, literature, television, film, and video