Status Updates From Cruel Optimism

Oh ok

If anyone sees this book let me know i lost it

Read the intro and essay on slow death but I’m restarting from the start

"the situation as a genre of unforeclosed experience...animated suspension...releasing subjects from the normativity of intuition and making them available for alternative ordinaries" everything is coming together --- renee gladman is writing affect theory!! about a situation!!! in ravicka!!!

"in this book optimism is not a map of pathology but a social relation involving attachments that organize the present. it is an orientation toward the pleasure that is bound up in the activity of world-making, which may be hooked on futures, or not. [...] optimism is, instead, a scene of negotiated sustenance that makes life bearable as it presents itself ambivalently, unevenly, incoherently." (14)