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Cruel Optimism
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In 2011, scholar and cultural theorist Lauren Berlant published a book called Cruel Optimism, in which she outlined a concept—oriented around an idea called "affect theory"—that essentially means we're prone to a double-bind in our desires, shaped by fantasies that serve as their own hurdles.
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