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The Treadmill Affect
Capitalism, Subjectivity, and the Present
A critical synthesis of the work of Lauren Berlant, Moishe Postone, and Michael Silverstein.
The Treadmill Affect draws upon the work of three University of Chicago professors, each a former program director at the Center for Transcultural Studies: literary and cultural critic Lauren Berlant, historian and social theorist Moishe Postone, and linguist Michael Silverstein. Through this intellectual synthesis, Benjamin Lee demonstrates the critical possibilities of uniting a revived linguistic turn with Marxist accounts of affect and subjectivity, adding new dimensions to the "treadmill" affective structure of cruel optimism.
The Treadmill Affect draws upon the work of three University of Chicago professors, each a former program director at the Center for Transcultural Studies: literary and cultural critic Lauren Berlant, historian and social theorist Moishe Postone, and linguist Michael Silverstein. Through this intellectual synthesis, Benjamin Lee demonstrates the critical possibilities of uniting a revived linguistic turn with Marxist accounts of affect and subjectivity, adding new dimensions to the "treadmill" affective structure of cruel optimism.
100 pages | 4.5 x 7 | © 2025
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Language and Linguistics: Anthropological/Sociological Aspects of Language
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
