No Future
Queer Theory and the Death Drive
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Book information
Duke University Press
USA
2004
Paperback
208
Standard
314119
978-0-8223-3369-2
0-8223-3369-4
Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
Annotation
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.
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