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- Dec 2021
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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The persistence of the American Dream, Berlant suggests, amounts to a cruel optimism, a condition “when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your own flourishing.”
Definición de cruel optimismo. La persistencia del sueño americano.
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- Sep 2013
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www.scribd.com www.scribd.com
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preservation of the species
consider in context of Darwinian "survival", and interesting to consider the contrast with Berlant's "Slow Death" concept--hunger to the point of obesity, love striving after objects to the point of depression
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