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"Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo; in housing markets, money markets, financial systems, state budgets, and sovereign currencies. In Anti-Crisis, Janet Roitman steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just why we declare so many c…
"A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the p…
Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affective responses to the unraveling of the U.S. and European economies by analyzing mass media, literature, television, film, and video. A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to …