No Future: Queer Theory and the Death DriveDuke University Press, 06.12.2004 - 204 Seiten 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. Closely engaging with literary texts, Edelman makes a compelling case for imagining Scrooge without Tiny Tim and Silas Marner without little Eppie. Looking to Alfred Hitchcock’s films, he embraces two of the director’s most notorious creations: the sadistic Leonard of North by Northwest, who steps on the hand that holds the couple precariously above the abyss, and the terrifying title figures of The Birds, with their predilection for children. Edelman enlarges the reach of contemporary psychoanalytic theory as he brings it to bear not only on works of literature and film but also on such current political flashpoints as gay marriage and gay parenting. Throwing down the theoretical gauntlet, No Future reimagines queerness with a passion certain to spark an equally impassioned debate among its readers. |
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... call the " good , " can ever have any assurance at all in the order of the Symbolic . Abjuring fidelity to a futurism that's always purchased at our expense , though bound , as Symbolic subjects consigned to figure the 4 THE FUTURE IS ...
... call " better , " though it promises , in more than one sense of the phrase , absolutely nothing . I connect this something better with Lacan's characterization of what he calls " truth , " where truth does not assure happiness , or ...
... calls us into meaning by seeming to call us to ourselves: this signifier only bestows a sort of promissory identity, one with which we can never suc- ceed in fully coinciding because we, as subjects of the signifier, can only be ...
... call the inevitable historicity of desire— the successive displacements forward of nodes of attachment as figures of meaning, points of intense metaphoric investment, produced in the hope, however vain, of filling the constitutive gap ...
... calls the subject's ' anatomical complement , ' an excessive , ' unreal ' remainder that produces an ever - present jouissance . ' 10 This surplus , compelling the Symbolic to enact a perpetual repeti- tion , remains spectral , " unreal ...