General Actions:
Cruel Optimism
Berlant 6 ~[Lauren, professor of English at U of Chicago, "Cruel Optimism" A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 17-3~]
"Cruel optimism" names a relation of attachment to compromised conditions of possibility.
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attachment, I will describe the shape of my transference with her thought.
Dibley 12 ~[Ben, researcher and writer based in Sydney, research associate at the Institute for Culture and Society, The University of Western Sydney. "Nature is us: The Anthropocene and species-being" Transformations no. 21 http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_21/article_07.shtml-http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_21/article_07.shtml)
The Anthropocene is here to stay. There is no return to a benevolent Holocene
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of the strange planet to which capital has abducted us" (7).
Berlant 7 ~[Lauren, prof. of English at University of Chicago, Critical Inquiry, "Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency) 33, summer~]
Because of these convolutions and variations sovereignty is an inadequate concept for talking about human
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full intentionality; inconsistency, without shattering; embodying, alongside embodiment.14