In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues their exploration of our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Eme...
In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues their exploration of our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, Christopher Isherwood, Bhanu Kapil, the Occupy movement, and resistance to anti-Black state violence, Berlant poses inconvenience as an affective relation and considers how we might loosen our attachments in ways that allow us to build new forms of life. Collecting strategies for breaking apart a world in need of disturbing, the book’s experiments in thought and writing cement Berlant’s status as one of the most inventive and influential thinkers of our time.
Praise
“This book is as magisterial as it is nonpretentious. With attention to detail and a sensitivity to suffering, Lauren Berlant works within the textures of everyday life and language to think about and dislodge the many intractable, irritating, obstructive objects and structures that get in the way of living well. Berlant has left us with advice for reading and for living: use the contradictions introduced by objects, exploit their mutability, dwell in the gaps opened by their incoherence to think through the social world in its intersectional damage and complexity. A brilliant book, a singular and disconcerting style, a practice of solidarity.” — Judith Butler, author of The Force of Nonviolence
“Lauren Berlant’s arguments are both politically challenging and deeply satisfying. They force you to reset your political compass in order to see and act in the world anew. It’s Berlant at their most brilliant, full of treasures to discover.” — Michael Hardt, coauthor of Assembly
“Building on their ongoing project of foregrounding and destabilizing our understanding of certain affective modes and how they structure relationality in trauma and precarity, Lauren Berlant offers brilliant readings that take on a classical concern: how do we live with others? On the Inconvenience of Other People is a rich, endlessly generative and melancholic work.” — Rebecca Wanzo, author of The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging
作者简介
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Lauren Gail Berlant (October 31, 1957 – June 28, 2021) was an American scholar, cultural theorist, and author. Berlant was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where they[a] taught from 1984 until 2021. Berlant wrote and taught issues of intimacy and belonging in popular culture, in relation to the history and fantasy of...
Lauren Gail Berlant (October 31, 1957 – June 28, 2021) was an American scholar, cultural theorist, and author. Berlant was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where they[a] taught from 1984 until 2021. Berlant wrote and taught issues of intimacy and belonging in popular culture, in relation to the history and fantasy of citizenship.
原文摘录
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From Sedgwick I learned that it’s not an idea until you circulate it, whatever stage it has reached. From Cavell I learned that showing up with the bruised fruit of one’s perspective is what the argument requires to reshape the dynamic processes always on the move from and toward forms of life. These methodological commitments helped me see a way into writing that would be freeing. (查看原文)
（把之前发布在Goodreads 上的书评搬到豆瓣上，希望能给贫乏的简中互联网增添一点关于Berlant的讨论） Lauren Berlant’s works often strike me in an affective sense. They move me, unsettle me and disorganise me a bit, or a lot, in a way that not that many, if any,...
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11 有用 Narranolan 2022-10-26 04:32:10 英国
确实难读。把“给彼此造成不便”理解成哲学意义的生命存在力与社会/政治层面的正向构建力（或重建力）。重视“日常”范围内的情感碰撞与“引发不便”的互动。作者十分看重unlearning的概念，以此为基础打开norm，跳出association，偏离shape，并借助集体性的暂存和互相认可的空间进行社会层面的积极建设与改造。与此同时，最令人兴奋的一点是作者把写作（很大程度上是理论写作）和阅读当成一种不便... 确实难读。把“给彼此造成不便”理解成哲学意义的生命存在力与社会/政治层面的正向构建力（或重建力）。重视“日常”范围内的情感碰撞与“引发不便”的互动。作者十分看重unlearning的概念，以此为基础打开norm，跳出association，偏离shape，并借助集体性的暂存和互相认可的空间进行社会层面的积极建设与改造。与此同时，最令人兴奋的一点是作者把写作（很大程度上是理论写作）和阅读当成一种不便的制造（与创造），倡导一种聚焦具象关注又随时可以接受开放重塑的genre。 (展开)
11 有用 Narranolan 2022-10-26 04:32:10 英国
确实难读。把“给彼此造成不便”理解成哲学意义的生命存在力与社会/政治层面的正向构建力（或重建力）。重视“日常”范围内的情感碰撞与“引发不便”的互动。作者十分看重unlearning的概念，以此为基础打开norm，跳出association，偏离shape，并借助集体性的暂存和互相认可的空间进行社会层面的积极建设与改造。与此同时，最令人兴奋的一点是作者把写作（很大程度上是理论写作）和阅读当成一种不便... 确实难读。把“给彼此造成不便”理解成哲学意义的生命存在力与社会/政治层面的正向构建力（或重建力）。重视“日常”范围内的情感碰撞与“引发不便”的互动。作者十分看重unlearning的概念，以此为基础打开norm，跳出association，偏离shape，并借助集体性的暂存和互相认可的空间进行社会层面的积极建设与改造。与此同时，最令人兴奋的一点是作者把写作（很大程度上是理论写作）和阅读当成一种不便的制造（与创造），倡导一种聚焦具象关注又随时可以接受开放重塑的genre。 (展开)