| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 946885 | Emotion, Space and Society | 2008 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
This essay looks at the waning of melodramatic event genres in contemporary attempts to think historical experience. It telegraphs this engagement in four passages that pursue how to write the history of the present under conditions of crisis within the ordinary: in the first instance, AIDS/IRAQ are the goads, in the second, a more generalized but not apolitical atmosphere where the contemporary is encountered not as trauma but flatness.
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Authors
Lauren Berlant,