Encountering Berlant part one: concepts otherwise

Anderson, Ben, Aitken, Stuart and Bacevic, Jana , et al. (2022) Encountering Berlant part one: concepts otherwise. Sexualities, 189 (1), 117-142. (doi:10.1111/geoj.12494).

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Abstract

In Part 1 of ‘Encountering Berlant’, we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter with their work, demonstrating how a concept, idea, or style disrupts something, opens up a new possibility, or simply invites thinking otherwise. The encounters range across the incredible body of work Berlant left us with, from the ‘national sentimentality’ trilogy through to recent work on negativity. Varying in form and tone, the encounters exemplify and enact the inexhaustible plenitude of Berlant's thought: fantasy, the case, love, impasse, feel tanks, slow death, ellipses, gesture, attrition, intimate public, ambivalence, style.

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