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On the inconvenience of other people / Lauren Berlant.
"On the Inconvenience of Other People is Lauren Berlant's follow up to Cruel Optimism (2011). In that book, Berlant focused on the reasons why, under the contemporary condition of constant crisis, people stay attached to objects that wear them out mentally, politically, materially, and physically. In this new book, Berlant turns attention to the impasse of attachment in a different way; rather than thinking about how we might lose such draining objects, they consider how we might loosen our relationship to those objects in a way that allows us to transform them and build out new forms of life. Berlant takes up the ordinary aspects of ambivalent sociality and inconvenience as an affective relation, thinking through three ways in which people (and whole populations) are deemed inconvenient to one another: sex, democracy, and life"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781478015819
- ISBN: 1478015810
- ISBN: 9781478018452
- ISBN: 1478018453
- Physical Description: xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | SEX : sex in the event of happiness -- DEMOCRACY : the commons : infrastructures for troubling times -- LIFE : on being in life without wanting the world : no world poetics, or, elliptical life -- Coda. My dark places. |
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| Subject: | Queer theory. Feminist theory. Interpersonal relations. Attachment behavior. Life change events. Life change events. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Carr University of Art + Design | HQ75.15 .B467 2022 (Text) | 30243163 | Book | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Duke Univ Pr
Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world, focusing on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. - Duke Univ Pr
In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, Christopher Isherwood, Bhanu Kapil, the Occupy movement, and resistance to anti-Black state violence, Berlant poses inconvenience as an affective relation and considers how we might loosen our attachments in ways that allow us to build new forms of life. Collecting strategies for breaking apart a world in need of disturbing, the bookâs experiments in thought and writing cement Berlantâs status as one of the most inventive and influential thinkers of our time.
