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This theorist described eating as an act of "lateral agency" in the "environment of slow death" in a chapter deconstructing the narrative around obesity. This thinker wrote that the “temporal genre” (15[3])of the present has become one of “crisis ordinariness” and “situation tragedy,” in which the “subject's world is fragile beyond repair.” Kathleen Stewart and this theorist wrote a collection of vignettes (15[1]-5[1])that each have some multiple of a hundred words. This author of the (15[1])“national sentimentality” trilogy wrote a 2011 book whose first essay explores cases where the (*) loss of an object of desire seems to entail the loss of one’s world. This theorist described an affect in which (10[1])one attaches oneself to promises of the good life that actually stand (10[1])in the way (10[1])of one’s flourishing, (10[1])like the American dream of upward mobility. For 10 points, name this UChicago literary theorist (-5[1])who theorized (-5[1])“cruel optimism.” ■END■ (10[1]0[4])

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