Overview :Last year's impeachment of President Bill Clinton demonstrated the paradox, but did not begin to explain it. How is it that "private matters... Read More
Overview :Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparat... Read More
Overview :A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiv... Read More
Overview :In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compass... Read More
Overview :"There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory," writes Lauren Berlant. Yet the ways in whic... Read More
Overview :In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The ... Read More
Overview :Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and cultur... Read More
Overview :In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues their exploration of our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focus... Read More
Overview :In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the Un... Read More
Overview :Alongside the O.J. Simpson trial, the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky now stands as the seminal cultural event of the 90s. A... Read More
Overview :The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking "national sentimentality" project charting the emergence of the U.S. politic... Read More
Overview :Examining the complex relationships between the political, popular, sexual, and textual interests of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work, Lauren Berl... Read More