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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” 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 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 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 “cruel optimism.” ■END■ (0[2])

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