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The Future is Kid Stuff

Summary/Abstract: The following excerpt from Lee Edelman’s groundbreaking book No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004) presents the theoretician’s radical project of queer ethics and politics outside kinship and reproductive circuits by introducing his re-conceptualization of queer negativity. According to Edelman modern politics; whether of the left or of the right; is defined by what he terms “reproductive futurism” which finds its manifestation in the recurring image of the Child. In a subtle; counterintuitive argument Edelman approaches the issue of negativity in Lacanian terms and suggest that queerness occupies the place of the social order’s death drive; figuring the bar to every realization of futurity thus exposing the reality of a collective future whose figurative status we are never permitted to acknowledge or address.

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