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Cruel Optimism: Affect Theory and the Structure of Feeling

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The Death Drive and the Death Drive

I think we see in a way the the death drive in operation where it's thinking you know what gives me so much pleasure to get food from all around the world all the time this is just a straight example right. I walk into the grocery store and I take pleasure in the amount of choices that are available to me even though it feels like I am choosing for myself, he says. "This takes us right back to cruel optimism and to these kind of attachments that we have that are not good for us" He concludes by saying: We need to imagine other ways of caring for ourselves of experiencing pleasure of um you know experiencing beauty or whatever it is that we feel like we're achieving

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