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Perfection — Optimization — Absolution

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By Zach Blas, Alexander R. Galloway, Melody Jue, Jennifer Rhee, Donna J. Haraway
Published: 28 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060581-012
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6058-1
... Perfection and optimization are terms that originate in moral and metaphysical discourse. Perfection refers to something having been fully accomplished, to something in a state of completion. Perfection connotes maturity, development, the absolute, flawlessness, purity. By contrast, optimization...
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Cruel Optimism

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By Lauren Berlant
Published: 01 September 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394716-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9471-6
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Cruel Optimism

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By Melissa Gregg, Lauren Berlant, Gregory J. Seigworth
Published: 01 January 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822393047-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9304-7
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Cruel Optimism

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By Lauren Berlant
Published: 01 September 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394716
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9471-6
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Sex without Optimism

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By Lauren Berlant, Lee Edelman
Series: Theory Q
Published: 01 January 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822377061-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7706-1
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Love and Sex as Cruel Optimism

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By Travis S. K. Kong
Published: 02 June 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024439-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2443-9
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The Cruel Optimism of the Asian Century

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By Aimee Bahng
Published: 27 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373018-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7301-8
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The Rational Optimism of the Beauty-Scholar Romance

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By Keith McMahon
Published: 01 January 1995
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9729-8
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Organic Sex Role Specialization — Optimal Genetic Strategies

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By Zach Blas, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Melody Jue, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Jennifer Rhee ...
Published: 28 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060581-022
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6058-1
... for care while ignoring its underlying capitalist and colonial articulations. organic sex role specialization optimal genetic strategies birth control art ...
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Unreconciled Strivings Du Bois, the Seduction of Optimism, and the Legacy of Sorrow

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By Joseph R. Winters
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 10 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374084-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7408-4
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Neoliberal Eugenics as the Fertility Frontier of Biocapital Optimizing Baby-Making in Catastrophic Times

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By Jennifer Denbow
Published: 27 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060024-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6002-4
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From Pernicious Optimism to Radical Hope Human Rights beyond Abstract Values

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By Lara Montesinos Coleman
Series: Global and Insurgent Legalities
Published: 12 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027683-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2768-3
... The privatization of human rights reflects a prevailing ethical orientation that the chapter characterizes as “pernicious optimism.” The fetishism of abstract values facilitates disavowal of the ways in which ordinary law and economic policy condemn many to an untimely death. This is contrasted...
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By Lauren Berlant
Published: 01 September 2011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9471-6
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Introduction Affect in the Present

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By Lauren Berlant
Published: 01 September 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394716-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9471-6
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Intuitionists History and the Affective Event

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By Lauren Berlant
Published: 01 September 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394716-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9471-6
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Slow Death (Obesity, Sovereignty, Lateral Agency)

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By Lauren Berlant
Published: 01 September 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394716-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9471-6
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Two Girls, Fat and Thin

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By Lauren Berlant
Published: 01 September 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394716-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9471-6
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Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal Post-Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta

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By Lauren Berlant
Published: 01 September 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394716-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9471-6
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After the Good Life, an Impasse Time Out, Human Resources, and the Precarious Present

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By Lauren Berlant
Published: 01 September 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394716-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9471-6
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On the Desire for the Political

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By Lauren Berlant
Published: 01 September 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394716-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9471-6
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