... 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...

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...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...

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... a curious position in relation to queer theory, showing how 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... optimism: your continued belief in the world’s being enough for the desires that tether you to it, all evidence to the contrary. I owe this understanding of optimism to Lauren Berlant. “All attachment,” she writes in Cruel Optimism , “is optimistic, if we describe optimism as the force that moves you out...

...? 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...

... . 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 York : Polity , 1991...

...,and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics. New York: Routledge, 1992 . ———, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, and Nancy Fraser. Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange . New York: Routledge, 1995 . Berlant, Lauren, and Elizabeth Freeman. “Queer Nationality.” Boundary 2 ( 1992 ): 149 –80...

... Jonathan Flanagan Mary . “ Designing Games to Foster Empathy .” Cognitive Technology 14.2 ( 2010 ): 5 – 15 . Berlant Lauren . Intimacy . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2000 . ———. “ Thinking about Feeling Historical .” Emotion, Space, and Society 1 ( 2008 ): 4 – 9...

... is underscored by bell hooks, who frames solidarity as the attribute of those who “accept responsibility for fighting oppressions that may not directly affect us as individuals” (62). And parrying the false sentimentalization of commonality, Lauren Berlant elaborates “a solidarity that calls not on full...

...: A Vernacular Theory . Chicago: u of Chicago p, 1984 . Bell, Howard Hellman. Minutes of the Proceedings of the National Negro Conventions, 1830-1864 . New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969 . Berlant, Lauren. The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship...

.... Howard Madison Parshley. New York: Random, 1952 . Berlant, Lauren. The Anatomy of National Fantasy:Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991 . ———. The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship . Durham: Duke UP, 1997 . Berlant, Lauren...