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Affect Is Social, Not Just Personal
- Affect is a collective, free-floating emotion shaped by institutions and material conditions.
- Berlant shows personal feelings like anxiety connect to economic and social structures, not just individuals.
Emotions Are Political And Material
- Emotional experiences like anxiety and hopelessness often spring from material and economic realities.
- Treating these affects as political opens collective responses rather than only individual treatment.
Why Attachment Can Be Cruel
- Cruel optimism names attachments that prevent flourishing even as they promise it.
- Berlant links psychoanalytic repetition and capitalist structures to explain why people stay stuck in harmful attachments.