Beschreibung:
Ties together political economy and affect in a time of decreased expectations.
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction. Affect in the Present 11. Cruel Optimism 232. Intuitionists: History and the Affective Event 513. Slow Death (Obesity, Sovereignty, Lateral Agency) 954. Two Girls, Fat and Thin 1215. Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promese and Rosetta 1616. After the Good Life, an Impasse: Time Out, Human Resources, and the Precrious Present 1917. On the Desire for the Political 223Note on the Cover Image: If Body: Riva and Zora in Middle Age 265Notes 269Bibliography 303Index 327