Cruel Pessimism and Waiting for Belonging: Towards a Global Political Economy of Affect

摘要: Recent theorizations of affect have focused largely on Western historical, political and aesthetic contexts to distinguish between emotion. Notably, these interventions offer new imaginaries reinvigorate analysis politics in the face shrinking possibilities. However, much this literature views as autonomous from emotion, while overlooking history development differentiated relation under colonial capitalism other historical contexts. This paper studies subaltern engagement activist performance India address issues. It thinks through Lauren Berlant's account genre affective structure cruel optimism, her focus where people recently lost vision a good life. By contrast, focusing present those born into pervasive intractable sense marginality insecurity, I ask: what is subject's activism ...