Berlant, Lauren Gail  1957- <br/><br/>
Cruel optimism / 
Lauren Berlant. 
 - Durham :  Duke University Press,  c2011. 
 - viii, 342 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-326) and index 
<br/><br/>Introduction. affect in the present -- Cruel optimism -- Intuitionists: history and the affective event -- Slow death (obesity, sovereignty, lateral agency) -- Two girls, fat and thin -- Nearly utopian, nearly normal: post-Fordist affect in La Promesse and Rosetta -- After the good life, an impasse: time out, human resources, and the precarious present -- On the desire for the political 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822350972 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822351115 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011021902 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Popular culture--United States<br/>Optimism--United States<br/>Progress
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Social conditions--1980-