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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Lauren Berlant"”.
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The Fold
… be interrupted (through “self-interruption” per Lauren Berlant), discovering instead desire, love, and its forms. Movement as a process is an entry into performance and transformation. Through duration and performance, the body becomes both tool and method for trans subjectivity to become …
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Optimism and its Bargains: Cultural Discourses of Motherhood and the Accounts of Mothers with Experiences of Anxiety and/or Depression
… analytical framework derived from the works of Lauren Berlant to theorise the ambivalence of maternal discourses and experiences. The other is to contribute to social theory by appraising the applicability of this Berlantian framework for social-scientific work. METHODS: This thesis has three …
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New vernaculars and feminine ecriture; twenty-first century avant-garde film
… philosophers and artists such as Svetlana Boym, Lauren Berlant, and Christian Marclay.
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Neo-Victorianism and empathy : time, affect, and the ethics of reading
… and psychoanalytic theorists including Lauren Berlant, Amy Coplan, Mark Currie, Marshall W. Gregory, Suzanne Keen, Melanie Klein, Jean-Paul Sartre, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Silvan Tomkins. In contrast to the popular understanding of neoVictorianism as a genre that seeks to explore the …
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Performance Writing, Objects and Millennial Precarity: A co-authored PaR exploration between friends
… aspects of what is required to experience what Lauren Berlant calls ‘a good life’ (including secure working contracts, renters’ rights, access to leisure time) are not being met. This leads to a feeling of ‘living on the edge’ (Ahmed, 2017: 238), which in turn prevents us from being able to …
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Performance Writing, Objects and Millennial Precarity: A co-authored PaR exploration between friends
… aspects of what is required to experience what Lauren Berlant calls ‘a good life’ (including secure working contracts, renters’ rights, access to leisure time) are not being met. This leads to a feeling of ‘living on the edge’ (Ahmed, 2017: 238), which in turn prevents us from being able to …
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The Right to Access: credit, concrete hope and a new politics of worth in Brazilian community banks
… by a feminist strand of affect theory drawn from Lauren Berlant, Sara Ahmed, and Kathleen Stewart, the thesis argues that these financial tools become embedded in broader social practices that reshape daily life and enable new forms of agency. Specifically, it shows how consumption operates as an …
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Beyond '9/11': counter-narratives of grief in post-9/11 literature
… such as Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler, and Lauren Berlant, to create a critical counter-narrative to literary studies of 9/11 ‘trauma’ and the dominant ‘9/11’ narrative of national ‘trauma’ and resilience. <br/><br/>Building on a substantial body of scholarship in grief studies and 9/11 …
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Envisaging Community in Twenty-First Century US Film and Television: Neoliberalism, Relationality, Ecologies
… of theorists — ranging from Judith Butler, Lauren Berlant, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, among others — to examine how US film and televisual media engage with questions of relationality and collective social responsibility, envisaging forms of political community amidst …
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Mourning and Melancholia in Zimbabwean Culture and Cinema
… such as Agnieszka Piotrowska, Stephen Frosh, Lauren Berlant and Ranjana Khanna. I also draw upon Zimbabwean writers Alois Mlambo, Dambudzo Marechera, Robert Muponde and, most notably, Tsitsi Dangarembga, P Mbatha, Panashe Chigumadzi, Yvonne Vera and other black female thinkers and writers. …
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Maternal Transgressions in Contemporary Cinema
… critical work of Adriana Cavarero, Lisa Downing, Lauren Berlant and Eugenie Brinkema to consider issues of contemporary violence, ethics and precarity. In the introduction, I set out the key theoretical concerns of the thesis and illustrate how Klein’s psychoanalytic model might help to read the …
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An End in Herself: Non-Motherhood in Contemporary French Women's Writing
… Sara Ahmed, Anne Dufourmantelle, Cathy Caruth, Lauren Berlant, Françoise Vergès, amongst others. Breaking the silence on both disempowered, dysphoric motherhood and the possibility of empowered, fulfilled non-motherhood, my first chapter explores Fatou Diome’s Inassouvies, nos vies (2008). …
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Dangerous Subjects: U.S. War Narrative, Modern Citizenship, and the Making of National Security, 1890-1964
… Brian Massumi, Claude Lefort, Etienne Balibar, Lauren Berlant, and Paul Kahn, who help elaborate the relationship between a discourse of danger and the socializing structure of state power. That constitutive relationship is considered at length in Chapter 1, which describes how middle-class …