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Cruel Optimism

Lauren Berlant

342 pages

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Themes
Paradigm-ShiftingPhilosophy of LifeCultural Deep DiveStuckness in broken promisesLove for toxic structuresThe exhaustion of hopeIntimacy with the impossible
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