Thinking with Lauren Berlant

Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-77212-909-0
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 370 g

Lauren Berlant transformed how we think about attachment, emotion, sexuality, and ordinary life. Their interventions have given scholars across disciplines new language for understanding why people stay bound to worlds that diminish them, and what politics looks like when understood through the body and the emergent present. Thinking with Lauren Berlant is the first edited collection to reflect on Berlant’s oeuvre since their death in 2021. Organized around key themes in Berlant’s critical lexicon, the contributions trace these themes as living practice for personal, political, and intellectual lives of scholars, artists, and humans. This remarkable collection will resonate with scholars across feminist and queer studies, affect theory, and cultural criticism: anyone invested in what thinking with others makes possible.

Contributors: Hester Baer, Claudia Breger, Ann Cvetkovich, Kyle Frackman, Mary Hennessy, Olivia Landry, Ervin Malakaj, Adrienne N. Merritt, Anna M. Parkinson, Simone Pfleger, Shoshana Schwebel, Cynthia Shin, Carrie Smith, Lauren Shizuko Stone, Simone Stirner, Brangwen Stone, and Shannon Walsh.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baer, Hester

Malakaj, Ervin

Pfleger, Simone

Smith, Carrie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Thinking with Lauren Berlant – Hester Baer, Ervin Malakaj, Simone Pfleger, Carrie Smith

- Part I: Fantasy/Genre

- 1. Tracking Political Fantasy – Claudia Breger

- 2. Siegfried Kracauer and Lauren Berlant on Fantasy, Realism, and the Waning of Genre – Mary Hennessy

- 3. Berlant’s Queer Street: On Stevenson, Inquiry, and Interruption – Lauren Shizuko Stone

- 4. Soliloquy and Soundtrack: A Desire/Love Playlist – Adrienne Merritt

- Part II: Ambivalence

- 5. Ambivalence: Three Shades of Contradiction – Anna Parkinson

- 6. A Startling Ethics of Ambivalence – Olivia Landry

- 7. The Negative Sandpaper of Sociality: Thinking with Lauren Berlant on Ambivalence – Ann Cvetkovich

- 8. Feeling Miserable with Lauren Berlant: A Series of Postpartum Complaints – Shoshana Schwebel

- Part III: Inconvenience

- 9. On the (In)convenience of Our Machines – Cynthia Shin

- 10. An Inconvenient Profession – Kyle Frackman

- 11. The Mess of Solidarity – Brangwen Stone

- Part IV: Non-Sovereign Relationality

- 12. Slow Death as/and World-making – Simone Pfleger

- 13. Soothing Aesthetics in Times of Crisis – Ervin Malakaj

- 14. In Conversation with Lauren Berlant – Shannon Walsh

- 15. Comedy and the Killjoy: Humor and Humorlessness in the Affective Lives of (Post-) Neoliberalism – Hester Baer

- Part V: Making Worlds

- 16. Fantasy as Political Dreaming – Claudia Breger

- 17. Work, or the Unbearable – Mary Hennessy

- 18. Flourishing under Conditions of Crisis: Notes on Academic Leadership – Carrie Smith

- 19. Unwriting the Discipline – Simone Stirner

Über Autor(innen)

Baer, Hester
Hester Baer is Professor of German Studies and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Smith, Carrie
Carrie Smith is Vice-Provost (Access, Community and Belonging) and Professor of German Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Malakaj, Ervin
Ervin Malakaj is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Pfleger, Simone
Simone Pfleger is Associate Professor of Gender and Queer Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.