The Treadmill Affect: Marxism, 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.

• | Author: Benjamin Lee
• | Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
• | Publication Date: Apr 19, 2025
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781734643572
• | ISBN-10: 1734643579