The Hundreds

Lauren Berlant; Kathleen Stewart

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint—each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long—amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground. What's an encounter with anything once it's seen as an incitement to composition? What's a concept or a theory if they're no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in absorption, attention, and framing? The Hundreds includes four indexes in which Andrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke each respond with their own compositional, conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.

Author / Editor information

Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is author of Cruel Optimism and The Female Complaint, both also published by Duke University Press.

Kathleen Stewart is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin, and author of Ordinary Affects, also published by Duke University Press.

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"In Berlant and Stewart’s hands, affect theory provides a way of understanding the sensations and resignations of the present, the normalized exhaustion that comes with life in the new economy. It is a way of framing uniquely modern questions."

-- Hua Hsu The New Yorker

"The seemingly arbitrary parameters Berlant and Stewart put in place act out an illuminating thought experiment for the reader. . . . A haunting and thought-provoking read that asks readers to slow down and take stock of what is in front of them."

-- Julia Shiota Ploughshares

"A roving adventure in critical prose. . . . Berlant and Stewart eschew a literary focal point for a broadly questioning spirit. . . . The point is not to 'track thing into their secret lairs,' or to place them in the 'so-called big picture,' rather, it is to look again, and encourage the reader look again too."

-- Michael Caines TLS

"The Hundreds is playful and loose, it roams and discovers, only to drift elsewhere, but it works: it grounds theory, makes it real."

-- Casey Dawson and Christopher Schaberg Los Angeles Review of Books

"The Hundreds focalizes an intrinsic desire to explore the world’s simplicities as the foundation for the potentiality of the extraordinary. Berlant and Stewart show that, indeed, ordinary life is ordinary and transformative, containing so many possibilities for thinking about who we are in the world, really."

-- Matt Morgenstern Cleveland Review of Books

"The Hundreds, by cultural theorist Lauren Berlant and anthropologist Kathleen Stewart, is at once a bold thought experiment and a radical exploration of reflexive ethnographic writing. . . . The Hundreds is a must read for scholars interested in affect as another register of human experience that exists alongside the psychological and phenomenological."

-- Asha L. Abeyasekera Feminism & Psychology

"As compositions, the hundreds illuminate and obscure, defamiliarize and refamiliarize, reflect and refract (tip of the cap to Volosinov 1973) both their authors and the cultural artifacts that appear in them, and offer a way of archiving cultural moments in ways that acknowledge, even foreground, their affective power."

-- Seth Kahn Anthropological Quarterly

"A speculative and seductive book. . . . The Hundreds asks us to pay attention to the capacious and crucial smallness of our everyday, to slow down and dial in to the richness and frustrations of ordinary encounters as a grounding and creative political practice."

-- Elisabeth R. Anker Theory & Event

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Preludic
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I. The Hundreds
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1. First Things
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2. Swells
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3. Dilations
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4. Space Junk
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5. You have to start somewhere
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6. This is vanilla
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7. Handyman
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8. Writing, Life
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9. Red Bull Diaries
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10. As if
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11. Checked out OK
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12. Graduation Speech, 2016
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13. The New Ordinary
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14. Contact Sheet
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15. The Things We Think With
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16. Worlds
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17. Weight of the World
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18. Today in Political Emotions
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19. The Road
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20. The State of Drift
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21. On Collaboration
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22. The Icing on the Cake
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23. Bad Feelings
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24. Halloweens
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25. Take a Breath
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26. Friction
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27. The Game as Method
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28. Once
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29. This isn’t consoling
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30. In the middle
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31. Cover Story
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32. In the cut
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33. What Does Webster’s Say about Soul?
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34. Against literal-minded explorations of the ordinary
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35. At the Y
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36. No world beyond the world
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37. Slide
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38. Two Elizas
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39. Keep It Together
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40. Welcome to the Joke
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41. The women
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42. Outside chances
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43. Writing Lessons
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44. Fish in Drag
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45. Suicidiation Nation
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46. The Morning Demons
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47. A Place
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48. A Skeletal Thought
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49. Utopian Capitalism
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50. Chicago
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51. A return
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52. Stony Island Story Problems
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53. Last summer
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54. Let’s Not Ask for the Moon
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55. Minds at Work
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56. Everyday Life in Early Spring
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57. Atmospheric Pressures
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58. After Meth
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59. Thought practices
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60. Approaching the Commercial Corridor
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61. What the houses are doing
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62. On Editing
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63. This Week in Shakes
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64. Lifelines in the middle of nowhere
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65. Hefty with Febreze
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66. A Family Line
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67. In the Terminal
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68. Kinships
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69. Projects
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70. Friendhating
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71. What Comes Through
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72. Everyday, a Video Installation
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73. Collecting
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74. If we could pay attention to everything
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75. What is it to be naked among men?
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76. Camera Worthy
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77. The Strange Situation: A Wedding Album
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78. All I know is
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79. Written in a place that smells like chicken
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80. Anxiety made a nest in her
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81. Book Reviews
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82. The Twins
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83. All the Desperate Calls Rolled into One
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84. It’s Structural
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85. Media Trouble
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86. Hundreds do things
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87. Survivors in Training
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88. Two young men with beards kissing on the floor.
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89. Refractions
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90. Reading Notes, the Week of December 16, ’16
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91. Just being me
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92. Office Hours
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93. Under Pressure
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94. Ordinary Love
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95. Stocking Up
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96. Bad Weather
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97. In it
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98. A Number on Introductions
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99. A month in arrests and other things
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100. Not Over Yet
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Index
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Fred Moten

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Andrew Causey and C. Thresher

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The Index
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Susan Lepselter

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Untitled
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Stephen Muecke

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For Your Indexing Pleasure
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Some Things We Thought With
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eBook published on:

September 21, 2020

eBook ISBN:

9781478003335

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478003335

eBook ISBN: 9781478003335

Audience(s) for this book

For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

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The Hundreds

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Preludic

1. First Things

2. Swells

3. Dilations

4. Space Junk

5. You have to start somewhere

6. This is vanilla

7. Handyman

8. Writing, Life

9. Red Bull Diaries

10. As if

11. Checked out OK

12. Graduation Speech, 2016

13. The New Ordinary

14. Contact Sheet

15. The Things We Think With

16. Worlds

17. Weight of the World

18. Today in Political Emotions

19. The Road

20. The State of Drift

21. On Collaboration

22. The Icing on the Cake

23. Bad Feelings

24. Halloweens

25. Take a Breath

26. Friction

27. The Game as Method

28. Once

29. This isn’t consoling

30. In the middle

31. Cover Story

32. In the cut

33. What Does Webster’s Say about Soul?

34. Against literal-minded explorations of the ordinary

35. At the Y

36. No world beyond the world

37. Slide

38. Two Elizas

39. Keep It Together

40. Welcome to the Joke

41. The women

42. Outside chances

43. Writing Lessons

44. Fish in Drag

45. Suicidiation Nation

46. The Morning Demons

47. A Place

48. A Skeletal Thought

49. Utopian Capitalism

50. Chicago

51. A return

52. Stony Island Story Problems

53. Last summer

54. Let’s Not Ask for the Moon

55. Minds at Work

56. Everyday Life in Early Spring

57. Atmospheric Pressures

58. After Meth

59. Thought practices

60. Approaching the Commercial Corridor

61. What the houses are doing

62. On Editing

63. This Week in Shakes

64. Lifelines in the middle of nowhere

65. Hefty with Febreze

66. A Family Line

67. In the Terminal

68. Kinships

69. Projects