Tape: What is the good life? It's about being totally alive in every fiber, every thought, every moment. Tape: A great vacation starts with a great airline. Paul Rand: What gets you out of bed in the morning? What motivates you to go to a job you may not love, save up to buy a house or a luxury car? For most Americans it's a desire to attain the quote-unquote “good life.”
The mindfulness conspiracy- The Guardian.Without Exception: On the Ordinariness of Violence- Law Review of Books.Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety- The New Yorker.Lauren Berlant and Karl Freed to receive Norman Maclean Faculty Award New book explores ‘concept of the ordinary’-100 words at a time.(Episode published November 4, 2019) Recommended: Subscribe to Big Brains on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. But she says the Presidency of Donald Trump has completely shattered our understanding of what it means to have a public and a shared connection as citizens. But what if our attachment to that desire is the very thing holding us back? Lauren Berlant is a theorist and English professor at the University of Chicago and the author of “Cruel Optimism” a book about when you're attached to forms of life that fundamentally get in the way of the attachment you brought to them.īerlant has been writing about finding attachment and belonging in America her entire career. For most Americans, the driving force in their personal and public life is a desire to attain the “good life”.
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