4 Cruel Optimism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. An Inventory of Shimmers 1
5. ONE Impingements
6. 1 Happy Objects 29
7. 2 The Future Birth of the Affective Fact 52
8. 3 Writing Shame 71
9. TWO Aesthetics and the Everyday
10. 4 Cruel Optimism 93
11. 5 Bitter after Taste 118
12. 6 An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers 138
13. THREE Incorporeal/Inorganic
14. 7 Modulating the Excess of Affect 161
15. 8 After Affect 186
16. 9 The Affective Turn 206
17. FOUR Managing Affects
18. 10 Eff the Ineffable 229
19. 11 On Friday Night Drinks 250
20. 12 Desiring Recognition, Accumulating Affect 269
21. FIVE After Affect
22. 13 Understanding the Material Practices of Glamour 289
23. 14 Affect’s Future 309
24. Afterword: Worlding Refrains 339
25. References 355
26. Contributors 381
27. Index 385