DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS – Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant

An in depth analysis of Slater Bradley’s videos Jfk Jr. (1999) and The Land of Artistic Expression (2002) are featured in Chapter 7, “On the Desire for the Political” of Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism.

…Bradley’s deflationary aesthetic stretches out the space between cause and effect, and stimulus and response. He thereby splits off loop from feedback, throwing the spectator into a space that does not exist yet as genre. (p.250)