Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago, has generated a path-breaking body of scholarship that has opened up and reinvigorated interdisciplinary conversations about citizenship, sex, law and neoliberalism for over two decades.
David Seitz, a Toronto-based writer and Ph.D. candidate in human geography and women’s and gender studies at the University of Toronto, recently interviewed Berlant about her take on contemporary queer and austerity politics, the political implications of powerful new book Cruel Optimism, and the insights of queer theory for the present. A shorter version of this interview recently appeared in Toronto Xtra! The full version is presented here.
There’s a cruel irony in the placement at the foot of this interview of an ad promising weight-loss by following “this weird old tip”
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Interview with Lauren Berlant at the Society and Space open site
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Entrevista publicada no site da revista Society and Space com Laurent Berlant. Cruel Optimism o seu último livro é uma densa aventura em me vou envolvendo nestes dias.
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