On the Inconvenience of Other People
Lauren Berlant
(Author)
Description
In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore 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.Product Details
Price
$29.84
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publish Date
September 20, 2022
Pages
256
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.53 inches | 0.76 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781478018452
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About the Author
Lauren Berlant (1957-2021) was George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author and coauthor of many books, including The Queen of America Goes to Washington City; The Female Complaint; Cruel Optimism; Sex, or the Unbearable; and The Hundreds, all also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
"The author is as sharp as ever at drawing from postcolonial, queer, and affect theory. Fans of Berlant's bright, electrifying thinking will want to check this out."-- "Publishers Weekly" (5/6/2022 12:00:00 AM)
"In Inconvenience, that pedagogy is sly, confiding, and digressive. . . . On the Inconvenience of Other People is, finally, a book in all its feels--from happiness to a death wish--all at once. And it's the last work of a scholar whose theory felt personal, and whose death was mourned far beyond those who knew Berlant: a perfect encapsulation of intimacy within publicity and the publicity of intimacy, a monument to their very work."--Hannah Zeavin "Bookforum" (9/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)
"A coherent and helpful addition to the ideas, now influential throughout the culture, that Berlant wrought in 2011's Cruel Optimism."--Jo Livingstone "4Columns" (9/23/2022 12:00:00 AM)
"Offers moments of stunning clarity with the kinds of pithy declarative revelations that can easily spiral a reader toward an entirely new outlook on life. Their writing is a paragon of world-breaking and world-making insight."--Megan Volpert "Popmatters" (11/2/2022 12:00:00 AM)
"In Inconvenience, that pedagogy is sly, confiding, and digressive. . . . On the Inconvenience of Other People is, finally, a book in all its feels--from happiness to a death wish--all at once. And it's the last work of a scholar whose theory felt personal, and whose death was mourned far beyond those who knew Berlant: a perfect encapsulation of intimacy within publicity and the publicity of intimacy, a monument to their very work."--Hannah Zeavin "Bookforum" (9/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)
"A coherent and helpful addition to the ideas, now influential throughout the culture, that Berlant wrought in 2011's Cruel Optimism."--Jo Livingstone "4Columns" (9/23/2022 12:00:00 AM)
"Offers moments of stunning clarity with the kinds of pithy declarative revelations that can easily spiral a reader toward an entirely new outlook on life. Their writing is a paragon of world-breaking and world-making insight."--Megan Volpert "Popmatters" (11/2/2022 12:00:00 AM)
