书籍介绍
Cruel Optimism provides important new ways of understanding subjectivity, temporality, attachment, and the political in the present moment. Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affective responses to the unravelling of the U.S. and European economies by analyzing mass media, literature, television, film, and video produced in the United States and Europe since 1990...
目录
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Affect in the Present
1. Cruel Optimism
2. Intuitionists: History and the Affective Event
3. Slow Death (Obesity, Sovereignty, Lateral Agency)
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用户评论
very engaging（指读得懂的部分）
虽然我还是觉得Berlant可以把话说得更简单一些，但是不得不承认她给我们在这个充满了不确定性的世界里指明了一条有可能的道路，至少我可以开始试着尝试面对我追求的a better good life了。
听到有人批评说fancy word，可能我的境界就只停留在这一层吧，语言的局要语言去破，一个好的词可以激发一系列思考。
Knowing how to access what's unraveling there is one way to measure the impasse of living in the overwhelmingly present moment
就這個概念本身真的。太。戳。了。
看感动了
残酷的乐观/转变是所有事情被理解之前在身体上被体验到的一种冲击；通过充满了许诺的新对象和新场景，存在可以被革命性地提升——这是一种常见的幻想
These kinds of potimistic relation are not inherently cruel. They become cruel only when the object that draws your attachment actively impedes the aim that brought you to it initially. 泪目