- Lauren berlant cruel optimism and new yorker article series#
- Lauren berlant cruel optimism and new yorker article free#
She is currently working on putting together a 2-volume anthology of critical and archival material on Avant-Garde Aesthetics in India for Routledge, and also towards a monograph on global avant-garde traffics, conversations and reverberations.
Her monograph, The Audacity of Pleasure: Sexualities, Literature and Cinema in India, was published in 2017. She has edited and co-edited collections like The Phobic and the Erotic, Gender and Censorship, Translating Desire, and Interventions she has done critical editions of Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and edited a collection of critical writings on the early novels of Amitav Ghosh. She has now taught for over 25 years, first at Delhi University and now at JNU. Her edited collection, Humanities, Provocateur: Towards a Contemporary Political Aesthetics, came out in July this year, and her first chapbook of poems, Calcutta, Crow and Other Fragments, was published in July 2020. Her interests are in gender and sexualities, modernist and avant-garde literatures, film studies and humanities studies. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University.īrinda Bose teaches at the Centre for English Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Organized by the Centre for Studies of Gender and Sexuality at Ashoka University and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University.
Lauren berlant cruel optimism and new yorker article series#
Part of the Theory and Practice: Transnational Conversations on Gender and Sexuality webinar series - a collaboration between the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University and the Centre for Studies of Gender and Sexuality at Ashoka University (New Delhi) - aimed at TAP-ping into critical and creative energies from around the world, to expand the intellectual and geographical ambit of our conversations around gender and sexuality in relation to politics, rhetoric, and history. Please contact CSGS at for more information. How do Berlant’s trenchant critiques of psychic attachments in the context of the ordinariness of crisis resonate today both within and beyond the borders of the US and Europe, in light of the devastations wrought by the multiple and converging crises of climate catastrophe, global pandemics, unfettered capitalism, and the entrenchment of authoritarian regimes?ĬART captioning services will be provided. Berlant incisively analyzes the exhaustion of life under late capitalism within liberal democracies, and the toxic effects of “good life fantasies” within the context of precarity that marks the present moment. On the tenth anniversary of its publication, and in the wake of Berlant’s untimely passing, this panel invites scholars from India, Hong Kong, the US, and the UK to reflect on the meaning and relevance of “cruel optimism” in a transnational frame. “A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing.” So writes feminist/queer scholar Lauren Berlant in the opening of their groundbreaking book Cruel Optimism.
Lauren berlant cruel optimism and new yorker article free#
Register for this free Zoom webinar here. November 12, Friday, 9 am ET (7:30 pm IT, 10 pm HK) A roundtable with Brinda Bose, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, & Alvin Wong moderated by Gayatri Gopinath
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