‘What Would It Mean to Think That Thought?’: The Era of Lauren Berlant | The Nation

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Riva Lehrer’s “The Risk Pictures: Lauren Berlant (Showing Up),” 2019. (Courtesy of the artist / Estate of Lauren Berlant) L auren Berlant, a pioneering scholar and cultural theorist, died on June 28 of a rare form of cancer. A professor at the University of Chicago since 1984, Berlant had wide-ranging influence as a scholar: They made contributions to literary studies, queer theory, and political theory, but were best known through their work on affect theory—a way of understanding political and cultural life through the individual and collective experience of mood and feeling. The loss of Berlant is immeasurable, and the effort of remembering and understanding the legacy of their scholarship is just beginning. As a contribution to that project, The Nation has asked four thinkers to share their thoughts on what Berlant’s thinking meant to them. —Kevin Lozano T he death of Lauren Berlant, one of the most esteemed and influential literary and cultural critics in the United States, has be

July 8, 2021 Riva Lehrer’s “The Risk Pictures: Lauren Berlant (Showing Up),” 2019. (Courtesy of the artist / Estate of Lauren Berlant) Lauren Berlant, a pioneering scholar and cultural theorist, died on June 28 of a rare form of cancer. A professor at the University of Chicago since 1984, Berlant had wide-ranging influence as a scholar: They made contributions to literary studies, queer theory, and political theory, but were best known through their work on affect theory—a way of understanding political and cultural life through the individual and collective experience of mood and feeling. The

‘What Would It Mean to Think That Thought?’: The Era of Lauren Berlant | The Nation

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