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"On the Inconvenience of Other People is Lauren Berlant's follow up to Cruel Optimism (2011). In that book, Berlant focused on the reasons why, under the contemporary condition of constant crisis, people stay attached to objects that wear them out mentally, politically, materially, and physically. In this new book, Berlant turns attention to the impasse of attachment in a different way; rather than thinking about how we might lose such draining objects, they consider how we might loosen our relationship to those objects in a way that allows us to transform them and build out new forms of life. Berlant takes up the ordinary aspects of ambivalent sociality and inconvenience as an affective relation, thinking through three ways in which people (and whole populations) are deemed inconvenient to one another: sex, democracy, and life"--

Preface: Reading Sedgwick, then and now / Lauren Berlant -- Introduction: An open mesh of possibilities?: the necessity of Eve Sedgwick in dark times / Ramzi Fawaz -- Note / From H. A. Sedgwick -- What survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman -- Proust at the end / Judith Butler -- For beauty is a series of hypotheses? Sedgwick as fiber artist / Jason Edwards -- In / Denis Flannery -- Early and earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop -- Eve's future figures / Jonathan Goldberg -- Sedgwick's perverse close reading and the question of an erotic ethics / Meridith Kruse -- On the Eve of the future / Michael Moon -- Race, sex, and the incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / José Esteban Muñoz -- Sedgwick inexhaustible / Chris Nealon -- The age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker -- Queer patience: Sedgwick's identity narratives / Karin Sellberg -- Weaver's handshake: the aesthetics of chronic objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker -- Eighteen things I love about you / Melissa Solomon -- Eve's triangles: queer studies beside itself / Robyn Wiegman.

Introduction. Compasion (and withholding) / Lauren Berlant -- Compasion / Marjorie Garber -- Much of madness and more of sin: compassion, for Ligeia / Candace Vogler -- Calculating compassion / Kathleen Woodward -- Poor Hetty / Neil Hertz -- Moving pictures: George Eliot and melodrama / Carolyn Williams -- Provoking George Eliot / Mary Ann O'Farrell -- Compassion's compulsion / Lee Edelman -- Cosmetic surgeons of the social: Darwin, Freud, and Wells and the limits of sympathy on The island of Dr. Moreau / Neville Hoad -- Suffering and thinking: the scandal of tone in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Deborah Nelson

Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propose that sex is unbearable, only that it unleashes unbearable contradictions that we nonetheless struggle to bear. In Berlant and Edelman's exchange, those terms invoke disturbances produced in encounters with others, ourselves, and the world, disturbances that tap into threats induced by fears of loss or rupture as well as by our hopes for repair