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Duke University Press
Language
English
Pages
342

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Subjects
Social conditions, Progress, Popular culture, Optimism, Popular culture, united states, United states, social conditions, 1980-
Places
United States
Times
1980-

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-326) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
302.23/4097309045
Library of Congress
HN59.2 .B464 2011, HN59.2.B464 2011

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Pagination
viii, 342 p. :
Number of pages
342

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Open Library
OL25304935M
ISBN 13
9780822350972, 9780822351115
LCCN
2011021902
OCLC/WorldCat
700406574
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Q123585219

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