Cruel Optimism: Affect Theory and the Structure of Feeling

Maggie Doherty teaches writing at Harvard, where she earned her PhD in English. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the Nation, among other publications. She is also the author of The Equivalents: The Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960's.
She joins Breht to discuss the work of Lauren Berlant, Affect Theory, our emotional landscapes in late capitalism, and much more!
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Outro Music: "Some Rotten Man" by The Taxpayers
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  • @joeydinero9300
    @joeydinero9300 Жыл бұрын

    14:21

  • @montysloungetv
    @montysloungetv2 ай бұрын

    'plays in' to the useless masks

  • @webmasterultra3487
    @webmasterultra348710 ай бұрын

    O my gosh, are we going to talk about Affect Theory or are you going to talk about the News? Fuck!

  • @atesah

    @atesah

    8 ай бұрын

    calm down…. this is an interesting conversation