Cruel Optimism: Affect Theory and the Structure of Feeling

Maggie Doherty teaches writing at Harvard, where she earned her PhD in English. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the Nation, among other publications. She is also the author of The Equivalents: The Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960's.

She joins Breht to discuss the work of Lauren Berlant, Affect Theory, our emotional landscapes in late capitalism, and much more!

Follow her on Twitter @magsrdoherty

Check out her interview on Open Source: https://radioopensource.org/into-the-feel-tank/

 

Outro Music: "Some Rotten Man" by The Taxpayers

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