On the Inconvenience of Other People

by Lauren Berlant

Book Overview

In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, Christopher Isherwood, Bhanu Kapil, the Occupy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478018453
• ISBN13: 9781478018452
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"