The Treadmill AffectBenjamin LeeLabel: Prickly Paradigm Press LLCDescription: 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.
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