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001461521 24510 $$aSpectres of pessimism :$$ba cultural logic of the worst /$$cMark Schmitt.
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001461521 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001461521 5058_ $$aIntro -- Acknowledgements -- About This Book -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: "Being for Being Against": Pessimism and the Cultural Moment -- A New Pessimism -- A Haunted Conjuncture: Pessimism and Temporality -- Pessimist Onto-Epistemologies -- A Conjunctural Pessimist Text: Hari Kunzru's Red Pill -- Spectres of Pessimism -- Chapter 2: From Pessimism of Theory to Radical Utopianism: Gramsci, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies -- Political Pessimism -- Theory and Practice: Horkheimer and Adorno's Critical Theory
001461521 5058_ $$aCultural Studies: Stuart Hall's Conjunctural Analysis as Pessimist Method -- Hope After Pessimism? Utopia Today -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Undoing Better Worlds: Anti-Utopianism from Cioran to Afropessimism -- Against Utopianism -- Utopianism Versus Pessimism -- Afrofuturism and Afropessimism -- Pessimist-Utopian Care? -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Kids Will Not Be Alright: Grievable Futures and the Ethics of Reproductive Pessimism -- The Child as Figuration of the Future -- From Reproductive Futurism to Reproductive Pessimism
001461521 5058_ $$a"I Knew My Destination": Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" and Denis Villeneuve's Arrival -- Time Destroys All Things: Gaspar Noé's Irréversible -- Ethics, Grief and Representational Form -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Embracing the Apocalypse: Extinction, Cosmic Pessimism and Ahuman Futures -- Against Life -- Thinking Extinction -- Affirmation of the End: Lars von Trier's Melancholia -- Taking the Exit: Camille Griffin's Silent Night -- Ahuman Futures -- Conclusion: Cultural Studies, Prefigurative Thought and the (Ab)Uses of Pessimism -- Bibliography -- Index
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001461521 520__ $$aThis book argues that philosophical pessimism can offer vital impulses for contemporary cultural studies. Pessimist thought offers ways to interrogate notions of temporality, progress and futurity. When the horizon of future expectation is increasingly shaped by the prospect of apocalypse and extinction, an exploration of pessimist thought can help to make sense of an increasingly complex and uncertain world by affirming rather than suppressing the worst. This book argues that a cultural logic of the worst is at work in a substantial section of contemporary philosophical thought and cultural representations. Spectres of pessimism can be found in contemporary ecocritical thought, antinatalist philosophies, political thought, and cultural theory, as well as in literature, film, and popular music. In its unsettling of temporality, this new pessimism shares sensibilities with the field of hauntology. Both deconstruct linear narratives of time that adhere to a stable sequence of past, present and future. Mark Schmitt therefore couples pessimism and hauntology to explore the spectres of pessimism in a range of theories and narrativesfrom ecocriticism, antinatalism and queer theory to utopianism, from afropessimism to the fiction of Hari Kunzru and Thomas Ligotti to the films of Camille Griffin, Gaspar No, Denis Villeneuve and Lars von Trier.
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