The Hundreds
The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant, published by Duke University Press on February 22, 2019, is an illustrated work comprising 184 pages in English. This book explores the intersections of writing, affect, politics, and the processes of world-making through a unique format that employs a one hundred-word constraint for each piece. This structure enhances the exploration of contemporary encounters and the shifting social and conceptual landscapes.
Readers will find a thoughtful examination of how encounters can incite composition and how concepts and theories can be viewed as tools for absorption and attention rather than mere truths. The Hundreds also features responses from contributors Andrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke, who provide their own interpretations and formal staging of the book’s themes. This edition invites readers to engage with the intricate relationships between social science, anthropology, and literary criticism.
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In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint—each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long—amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground. What’s an encounter with anything once it’s seen as an incitement to composition? What’s a concept or a theory if they’re no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in absorption, attention, and framing? The Hundreds includes four indexes in which Andrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke each respond with their own compositional, conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.
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