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No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive

No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive

Edelman, Lee

Paperback

Series: Series Q

Film & Video ArtGeneral PsychologyGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0822333694
ISBN13: 9780822333692
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 6 2004
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of reproductive futurism. Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. He boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and political order. In No Future, Edelman urges queers to abandon the stance of accommodation and accede to their status as figures for the force of a negativity that he links with irony, jouissance, and, ultimately, the death drive itself.

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