вЂњHer point wasnвЂ™t to shake her finger and say, вЂYouвЂ™re liking bad objects,вЂ™ but instead, it was to explain why we are stuck even when it should be sort of obvious that the way weвЂ™ve organized things isnвЂ™t working,вЂќ Nelson said.Д«erlant also coauthored вЂњThe Hundreds,вЂќ a book of theoretical prose poems, with anthropologist Kathleen Stewart in 2019. Lauren Berlant taught in the English department at the University of Chicago from 1984. Berlant preferred to use the pronouns 'they/them'. AFS Journal and Duke University Press announced the news of the author's demise on Twitter on June 28.

The phrase, she noted, describes вЂњa relation of attachment to compromised conditions of possibility whose realization is discovered either to be impossible, sheer fantasy, or too possible, and toxic.вЂќ Lauren Berlant, the author of 'Cruel Optimism' has died at the age of 64. вЂњCruel optimism is the condition of maintaining an attachment to a significantly problematic object,вЂќ Berlant wrote in the bookвЂ™s first chapter. The bookвЂ™s title refers to BerlantвЂ™s description of societiesвЂ™ unachievable dreams and their inability to ditch such hopes in favor of more realistic expectations. The book evaluated how modern American life adapted to the global financial crisis, arguing that Americans and Europeans have continued to have aspirations of upward mobility, job security and even durable intimacy, despite a lack of evidence that their societies can be counted on to provide such fruits. вЂњCruel Optimism,вЂќ which was published in 2011, won the Rene Wallek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, among other honors. вЂњPopular culture relies on keeping sacrosanct this aspect of sentimentality - that вЂunderneathвЂ™ we are all alike,вЂќ Berlant wrote in вЂњThe Female Complaint.вЂќ

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