CS250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lauren Berlant, Upper Middle Class, Precariat
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Cs 250- week 3: looking at two potential ways and how we look within, creative class in contrast with the culture industry. Lauren berlant cruel optimism: prof at university of chicago (english lit) Good life: attachment to the good life, means a stable job, house, intimate relations, upper middle class dream, keeping up with spending habits because of the idea of being upper middle class. Impasse: feeling of going around in circles, feeli(cid:374)g you dri(cid:448)e(cid:374) i(cid:374)to a rou(cid:374)d a(cid:271)out a(cid:374)d (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t get out of it, very repetitive days, non movement but still movement, not going faster either, slower pace. Genre of crisis: within this impasse, more things pile on and added to our plate and it is about keeping the fire out, almost like a slow death, films and books capture this present moment. Moving away from a discourse of trauma: always slowing down, slowly going wrong with the car, traumatic moment; discourse of trauma.
