Kaz’s Reviews > Cruel Optimism > Status Update

"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)