ARGONAUT BOOKS

Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affective responses to the unravelling of the U.S. and European economies by analysing mass media, literature, television, film, and video. Reviews "Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant's brilliant new book, lays bare the price of our habitual ways of thinking about subjectivity, temporality, affect, attachment, and political investment. Exploring the condition of precarity that mocks the good life (or at least the better life) that hard work and good behavior are supposed to make possible within liberal democracy, Berlant's bold a...Read More