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... of happiness in periods when political change is blocked. It examines the 1945 essay, puts it in context of Marcuse’s work for the US intelligence services in the 1940s, and looks at the similarities between the 1945 essay and Marcuse’s later writing. Finally, it asks whether Marcuse’s arguments matter today...

... managing oneself.” However, as happiness is constructed as a mandatory “individual engineering project,” more recently, female influencers have emerged who go against standards of beauty taken as oppressive. They embrace other physiques as forms of self-expression and finding joy, mostly the “big” body...

...Rosalind Gill; Shani Orgad Abstract Examining women's magazines and lifestyle coaching, the article explores how positivity imperatives in contemporary culture call forth a happy, confident, hopeful, and vibrant subject during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis shows how these positivity...

... to understanding The Fat Years , because Chan’s utopian city is defined by a failure to remember or attribute significance to anything beyond the happy golden age the people currently inhabit. This condition of amnesia is reflected in the state of slack-jawed happiness of Chan’s new Beijingers, who are incapable...

... requires complex theoretical and empirical attention. Joy is an understudied aspect of human agency and popular culture and has been—until now—perhaps persistently underrated by critical theorists. Used here as a shorthand for various forms of pleasure, delight, play, and personal happiness, including...

... of the intolerant, envious, and destructive attitude toward projected illusions of the possible realization of happiness—in the aesthetic as well as political realm—in societal conditions in which it is perceived as structurally impossible. References Adorno Theodor . 2004 . Aesthetic Theory...

... ; Marshall 1997 , 2006 ). Fame is an important component of the global happiness industry (Cabanas and Illouz 2019 : 19): celebrities actively role-model what life looks like with access to all that consumer culture promises will make us joyful: wealth, renown, and endless material pleasure...

..., and regarding this antagonism, they are on the same side. Alcibiades's speech, the last one in the contest, demarcates and justifies such a positioning. Comedy, as such, testifies to the persistence of another approach to happiness, free will, and free use that deals with responsibility in terms...

... the whole semiological or structuralist context is concerned, for example—all the people who are ranged alongside me or who I’m grouped with—though I’m not complaining at all and would be quite happy to feel their influence (this isn’t in any sense a question of vanity), it can’t really be said that I’ve...

... in the founding days of psychoanalysis are described correctly. Revisionists love to cover this up. Unlike me, everybody is so keen on conciliatory gestures. What can I say? Epochs turned by 170 rather than 180 degrees, but then people come along and behave as if there were one happy continuity to 1897. But I do...

... play together complete with some rather makeshift-looking angels' wings, a throwback to the myths of Lilya's Christian upbringing, in which the suffering children finally find happiness in the next world. 4 However, in between these two fantasies, we see another possibility when, on the way up...

... position. This belief allows for being relatively happy, or at least content, here and now, rather than sacrificing the here and now for what is, statistically speaking, a most likely unattainable dream-future. In this sense, the sacrifice of televisions could be seen as a sacrifice of sacrifice itself...

..., stuffs, ivory, wood, or gems, executing products of infinite taste?” Yet, some pages further on, the eminent economist himself answers this question, in refuting the argument of those who maintain that “France produces too much.” “In what respect does she produce too much, this happy country of ours...

... and the making of happy (white and heterosexual) families. Gone are the potentially uncomfortable cyborg interventions; instead, the client turns her attention to happy mothers and perfect, healthy white babies. 3 While infertility is positioned as both a serious and a traumatic experience, it is also...

... to the discomforts of adulthood is a way of preserving the belief that at some point in our lives we were completely happy. The big question in this regard is: were we really that happy? Nostalgic memories of a better past are still one of the driving forces of humanity, but this metaphysical belief leads us...

... excessive emphasis on Bosnian and Greek “brothers” signifies an ideological positioning of Bosnia and Greece as the internal other of Europe: simultaneously “inside” and “outside.” Second, this website is an example that makes clear a lingering naive association that links humor with happiness...

... type: if this is the best of possible worlds, that is not because this world can be said to be so from the standpoint of value, but because it remains possible to operate within it in such a way as to make any type of existence a happy and satisfied one. This is why Jesuitic virtue is not based on hope...

... marked a moment of reflection, revision, and reenvisioning of Cultural Politics . We are happy to add Eva Haifa Giraud to the lead editorial team. Similarly, with the retirement of arts editor Deborah Frizzell, who has been at the helm of the regular arts contributions to the journal, we welcome Tania...

... to fight,” and “I will commit martyrdom,” “we will annihilate the Jews.” The rest of the clip shows Farfour explaining that for Muslims to be “masters” they need to be happy in the Arabic language, specifically avoiding the use of English, while the child presenter expresses the importance of speaking...

... can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” Moreover, if left unchecked, the divergence between the moral norms held by the super-rich and the rest of society threatens to undermine a fundamental ethical stance recognized by all...