_OtIoOP_ Goodreads blurb

[Michael Bailey]

Thanks, Mark! Sounds pertinent, a grapple with a constant dilemma.

In *On the Inconvenience of Other People* Lauren Berlant continues to
explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the
encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects,
showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be
inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including *Last Tango in
Paris*, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, Christopher Isherwood, Bhanu
Kapil, the Occupy movement, and resistance to anti-Black state violence,
Berlant poses inconvenience as an affective relation and considers how we
might loosen our attachments in ways that allow us to build new forms of
life. Collecting strategies for breaking apart a world in need of
disturbing, the book’s experiments in thought and writing cement Berlant’s
status as one of the most inventive and influential thinkers of our time.
<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59019775-on-the-inconvenience-of-other-people#>