Search Results for Lauren Berlant

... technology and education by invoking Lauren Berlant’s term cruel optimism and challenges assertions that technical savvy yields more jobs for undergraduates and that moocs reduce the cost of higher education. Chun insists that if the humanities are at risk, it is because they have capitulated...

... it, as intrapsychic metabolism gone awry, recalling Butler’s attention in their earlier work to the relational scrupulousness of Emily Dickinson and Henry James. Read alongside the buckling formalisms of descriptive exigency, perceptual groping, and the affective complexity of sincerity (in Lauren Berlant’s late...

... . Ashtor Gila . “ Psychology as Ideology-Lite: Butler, and the Trouble with Gender Theory .” Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia . New York : Fordham UP , 2021 . 141 – 70 . Berlant Lauren . Cruel Optimism . Durham : Duke UP , 2011 . Berlant Lauren Edelman Lee...

...Lauren Berlant Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2006 lauren berlant teaches English at the University of Chicago. Her most recent books are The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Duke University Press...

... Berlant Lauren . “ The Commons: Infrastructures for Troubling Times .” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34 . 3 ( 2016 ): 393 – 419 . Bersani Leo . “ Is the Rectum a Grave? ” aids: Cultural Analysis / Cultural Activism. Spec. issue of October 43 ( 1987 ): 197 – 222...

... gonzález 3 The Politics of Translation in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo lauren berlant 20 Cruel Optimism rachel bowlby...

... the presuppositions of interlocutors including Lauren Berlant, Lee Edelman, and Janet Halley can lead to alternative theoretical outcomes. All the queer theorists discussed in Lips would critique the conditions in play when some are, as Puar puts it, “folded into life” (10). These conditions might include cruel...

... referred between bodies by mirror neurons and philosophically as an injury to the flesh of the world of which we are all composed. I thank Lauren Berlant, Matthew Ratcliffe, Margaret Simmonds, and Alessandra Tanesini for helpful conversations and information; and the editors and anonymous readers...

... Du Mal: A Bilingual Edition . Trans. Norman R. Shapiro. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998 . Benjamin, Walter. “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire.” Illuminations . Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken, 1969 . 155 –94. Berlant, Lauren. “Intimacy: A Special Issue.” Critical Inquiry 24.2 ( 1998 ): 281...

... as an original creation of gay sex. For Stephan. 1 “Parody is a big turn-off and all gay men know this,” writes Bersani in another famous passage from “Is the Rectum a Grave?” (14). 2 Lauren Berlant has taught us that love as affective excess can also leave behind personalized addresses...

... around bathroom segregation remains the innocent girl child, in whose “name as future citizen,” Lauren Berlant reminds us, “state and federal governments have long policed morality around sex and other transgressive representation” (58–59). Although many men are quick to invoke their daughters as making...

..., it is something I think about every day.) 5 I follow Lauren Berlant’s definition of genre: “A genre is an aesthetic structure of affective expectation, an institution or formation that absorbs all kinds of small variations or modifications while promising that the persons transacting...

..., Freud’s argument in Totem and Taboo . No doubt, in this life, there is no exit from the hell—or what Lauren Berlant has more recently rephrased, less dramatically, as the “inconvenience”—of other people and, indeed, of our own narcissistic myopia, our “human neurosis.” Earlier, I suggested...

...? Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner’s widely influential 1998 essay “Sex in Public” is perhaps the fullest early engagement with this question, and it points instructively to the difficulties that queer theory faces in negotiating norms and normativity. Berlant and Warner advocate for “the radical...

... of American Literature . Vol. 2 . Ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995 . 605 –778. Berlant, Lauren. The Anatomy of National Fantasy:Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991 . Budick, Emily Miller. Nineteenth-Century American Romance: Genre...

... and prophesies of sex panic are no longer baseless. Many thanks to Lauren Berlant, Andrea Long Chu, Shelley Fischel, Ellen Rooney, Matthew Shafer, Igor Souza, and Robyn Wiegman. This paper benefited from the insights of Inderpal Grewal and the students in our fall 2017 lecture course, “Sex, Knowledge...

.... To take one of the most striking recent examples: in a tour de force essay entitled “Poor Eliza,” Lauren Berlant draws on a dense network of dramatic, textual, and critical rewritings of Stowe’s famous novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin to map what...

... (or as effectively) govern themselves (Schotten xiv). Indeed, as Edward Said has famously argued about the colonial desire for authority, “European culture gained in strength and identity by setting itself off against the Orient as a sort of surrogate” (3). And in a similar motioning outward, Lauren Berlant has...

... with symptoms, through what Slavoj Žižek has called, in a different context, enjoying your symptom. For Žižek, “enjoy your symptom” is a kind of riposte to Jameson’s “history is what hurts” and involves something of what Lauren Berlant has called “cruel optimism.” As Žižek explains, the fetish “embod[ies...

... ( 1967 ): 239 – 47 . Berlant Lauren Warner Michael . “ What Does Queer Theory Teach Us about X? ” PMLA 110 . 3 ( May 1995 ): 343 – 49 . Bourdieu Pierre . Language and Symbolic Power . 1982 . Ed. Thompson John B. Trans. Raymond Gino Adamson Matthew . New...