Cruel Optimism Alice Udvari-Solner frenetic mercantile class

frenetic mercantile class

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Cruel Optimism Alice Udvari-Solner frenetic mercantile classTies together political economy and affect in a time of decreased expectations. 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 postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to