No Future
Subtitle: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Series Q)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780822333692
Subjects: Films, cinema; Gay & Lesbian studies; Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; Queer theory; Homosexuality; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; Semiotics & Theory; Gay Studies; Film & Television Studies; Gay & Lesbian Studies/Queer Th; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; Gay & Lesbian; Philosophy; Political aspects
Description: "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." -- Publisher's description