Cruel optimism is an affective structure in which individuals feel stuck in the same place where people attach sites of flourishment. Ordinary optimism sustains and places you in the world - not always cruel! Politics and love and writing is inherently optimistic - there is a hope in it. Sexual identity is optimistic, intimacy is optimistic - it gives sense of place. Foucault opinions of sex?! What if objects that sustained you turned on you? Conventional forward looking tendency depletes and defeats individual. What if you fall in love or out of love and that threatens whatever makes the world intelligible to you. What if the centrality of labour begins to fade? Any optimism can became cruel optimism if a relation that once sustained you threatens your capacity to survive.
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This dialogue is affective! My body feels!
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Beautiful...absolutely inspiring and exciting
Cruel optimism is an affective structure in which individuals feel stuck in the same place where people attach sites of flourishment. Ordinary optimism sustains and places you in the world - not always cruel! Politics and love and writing is inherently optimistic - there is a hope in it. Sexual identity is optimistic, intimacy is optimistic - it gives sense of place. Foucault opinions of sex?! What if objects that sustained you turned on you? Conventional forward looking tendency depletes and defeats individual. What if you fall in love or out of love and that threatens whatever makes the world intelligible to you. What if the centrality of labour begins to fade? Any optimism can became cruel optimism if a relation that once sustained you threatens your capacity to survive.
Thank you for this jewel.
Thank you for uploading !!
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what is she talking about ?