Lauren Berlant Obituary – Death, Cause Of Death, Funeral: “The scholar and “Cruel Optimism” author Lauren Berlant has died. We dream of swimming toward a beautiful horizon, she evocatively observed in 2011, but in truth, we are constantly “dogpaddling around a space whose contours remain obscure.”
Friends and other affected persons mourn the death of The scholar and “Cruel Optimism” author Lauren Berlant, 63, who passed away suddenly on June 28, 2021.
Berlant was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago where they taught since 1984.
InsideEko is yet to confirm Lauren Berlant’s cause of death as no health issues, accident or other causes of death have been learned to be associated with the passing.
This death has caused a lot of friends and family of Berlant so much hurt. It is in that mourning spirit that the concerned persons have taken to social media to share tributes to the deceased and condolences to the affected family.
Tributes To Lauren Berlant
Below are some of the statements shared across social media users’ timelines on the death of Berlant.
So sad to hear about the loss of Lauren Berlant. Their work fundamentally changed how I think & the world has never been the same. It is bigger, richer, more textured – they helped me inhabit these ruins more gracefully.
— Debbie Lisle (@debbielisle) June 28, 2021
I’d also be remiss not to mention that so much of the thinking behind my research and teaching was influenced by Lauren Berlant, who we lost today far too soon.
— Andy Owens (@AndyOwens85) June 28, 2021
“Crisis is not exceptional to history or consciousness but a process embedded in the ordinary that unfolds in stories about navigating what’s overwhelming.”
Rest in peace, Lauren Berlant
— Kelly Gray (@kellyeringray) June 28, 2021
sad to hear about lauren berlant but the stream of tributes is at least partially comforting. as a fellow queer philadelphian, currently trying to care for my mom, i’m letting these words wash over me as i sit alone in a dr’s office waiting room in philly
— Jeff Scheible (@jeffscheible) June 28, 2021
Not a scholar or an expert but few books have excited me more in recent years than Cruel Optimism — Lauren Berlant was brilliant and made people think better RIP
— Lucas Mann (@LucasWMann) June 28, 2021
I can’t believe Lauren Berlant passed…Their work is life changing. One the scholars I wish I could have met IRL, though we did exchange some emails at one point. Really sad to hear of their passing…
— Dr. Ula Klein 🌷🌼🍀 (@KleinUla) June 28, 2021
Here’s Lauren Berlant’s *Desire/Love* from @punctum_books:
“Even now, despite everything, desire/love continues to exert a utopian promise to discover a form that is elastic
enough to manage what living throws at lovers.” #Queer #Affect— Jacob J. Erickson (@jacobjerickson) June 28, 2021
Thank you Lauren Berlant for teaching me how experimental and creative queer theory can be. I am deeply saddened to learn of your passing, but I will always carry and share your pedagogy. pic.twitter.com/cZwy58CSbc
— Andrew Rimby (@AndrewDRimby) June 28, 2021
We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Lauren Berlant, one of our bestselling authors and a great friend to the Press. A full remembrance will come later this week, in the meantime, this @NewYorker article is a good piece on their work and legacy.
— Duke University Press (@DukePress) June 28, 2021
Lauren Berlant (1957-2021). What a terrible terrible loss. Wow.
— Baharak Yousefi بهارک یوسفی (@BaharakY) June 28, 2021
Lauren Berlant: Always an inspiration and always there until today. Thank you for all you did for me – and so many others. 💕 pic.twitter.com/PFKmFrM5OD
— Jenny Edkins (@jenny_edkins) June 28, 2021
My sympathy to all those grieving Lauren Berlant’s death. I didn’t know her personally, but it’s crystal clear that she touched many hearts and shaped many minds.
— Rafael Walker (@raf_walk) June 28, 2021
a friend just reminded me that lauren berlant told our class their totem animal was roadkill… a comedic genius in every sense of those words
— chris robinson (@secrethistorian) June 28, 2021
So saddened to hear about the passing of Lauren Berlant. The course I took with them at UChicago taught me so much about gender and sex theories that I often felt dizzy leaving class, unable to process quickly enough the brilliance I had just heard. May they rest in peace.
— Dr. Caroline Sequin (@carolinevsequin) June 28, 2021
Lauren Berlant RIP 🙏
What a tremendous loss. 💔— *GMQ* SUSAN (@ifudontlike2bad) June 28, 2021
What a lovely way to honor Lauren Berlant and her work – learning of her death today has been deeply saddening, but what an inspiration she has been to many of us
— Hannah Schoch (@hannah_schoch_) June 28, 2021
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