'No Requiem for the Space Age' paints a portrait of a nation in the midst of questioning the very values that had guided it through the post-war years as it began to develop new conceptions of progress that had little to do with blasting ever more men to the moon. Here is a narr…
"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 …
