... . 2015 . “ Does the Acéphale Dream of Headless Sheep? ” In Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion , edited by Biles Jeremy Brintnall Kent L. , 217 – 38 . New York : Fordham University Press . Bliss James . 2015 . “ Hope against Hope: Queer Negativity...

... the spread of mosquito-borne diseases from South to North in a warming world, the essay argues for the significance of ambient forms of reproduction that move across both species and geographic zones of waste and surplus. In contrast to queer-negative arguments for the sovereign refusal of reproduction...

... queer theory, which shines a light on the importance of negation, failure, and desubjectivization in love relationships, Unmaking Love expands our understanding of the role of negativity in reconceiving love beyond an idealized fantasy of transcendent union. Foundational to her argument...

... is (or becomes queer when it is) a force of tearing and symbolic rupture, queer theory teaches us that it is also a forging of sociabilities in this space of rupture. It also teaches us that queer collectivities are always made across and through social negativities. Theorizing queerness in terms of queer bonds...

... naturalisms, for Muñoz, the logic of negativity informing the antirelational turn in queer theory necessitates the reparative promise of utopia; additionally, the “banal optimism” (3) and “anemic political agenda” (19) of contemporary North American LGBT politics warrant the utopian turn. Works...

... Negativity, Black Feminist Theorizing, and Reproduction without Futurity .” Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature 48 , no. 1 : 83 – 98 . Brody Jennifer DeVere . 2003 . “ Queering Racial Reproduction: ‘Unnatural Acts’ in Angelina Weld Grimké’s ‘The Closing Door...

...Eric Stanley Abstract Through Indigenous critiques of the commons, this article asks what forms of collectivity might be built against the drives of settler-sovereignty. By centering various scales of forced removal and its resistance, I offer a reading of Gay Shame, a queer direct action group...

...Corey McEleney Since its publication in 2004, Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive has sparked some of the most heated debates in literary and cultural studies. Yet most engagements with Edelman’s text—whether positive, negative, or neutral—tend to resort to paraphrasing...

... on queer bonds, sexuality and sociability, negativity and futurity, are indebted to the research and thinking involved in my recent book about the figuration of sexuality as drive in Freud and in literary and film texts.1 One of those texts, Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood (1936), has received much...

...Lisa Duggan Gayle Rubin's reputation as a star academic and public intellectual has been based on her cool brilliance. But her public and professional reception has also been marked, positively and negatively, by the ambivalence generated by strong feeling. This article describes Rubin's affective...

... sense that queer studies has inoculated or alchemized an archive of negativity, thereby emptying that past, that “queer history,” of the negative qualities by which it was constituted. Despite the dexterity of Love’s local arguments, the specific occasion for Love’s interven...

...- quent set of literary analyses to the ever-fomenting discourse of queer negativity. Love’s study complicates (rather than reconsolidates or differently hypostasizes) a possible politics of negative feeling, in part to the extent that its theoretical vocabulary adheres...

... sense that queer studies has inoculated or alchemized an archive of negativity, thereby emptying that past, that “queer history,” of the negative qualities by which it was constituted. Despite the dexterity of Love’s local arguments, the specific occasion for Love’s interven...

...- quent set of literary analyses to the ever-fomenting discourse of queer negativity. Love’s study complicates (rather than reconsolidates or differently hypostasizes) a possible politics of negative feeling, in part to the extent that its theoretical vocabulary adheres...

...- quent set of literary analyses to the ever-fomenting discourse of queer negativity. Love’s study complicates (rather than reconsolidates or differently hypostasizes) a possible politics of negative feeling, in part to the extent that its theoretical vocabulary adheres...

... sense that queer studies has inoculated or alchemized an archive of negativity, thereby emptying that past, that “queer history,” of the negative qualities by which it was constituted. Despite the dexterity of Love’s local arguments, the specific occasion for Love’s interven...

... a perspicuous and often elo- quent set of literary analyses to the ever-fomenting discourse of queer negativity. Love’s study complicates (rather than reconsolidates or differently hypostasizes) a possible politics of negative feeling, in part to the extent that its theoretical...

...- quent set of literary analyses to the ever-fomenting discourse of queer negativity. Love’s study complicates (rather than reconsolidates or differently hypostasizes) a possible politics of negative feeling, in part to the extent that its theoretical vocabulary adheres...

...- quent set of literary analyses to the ever-fomenting discourse of queer negativity. Love’s study complicates (rather than reconsolidates or differently hypostasizes) a possible politics of negative feeling, in part to the extent that its theoretical vocabulary adheres...

.... The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Badiou, Alain. 2007. “Towards a New Concept of Existence.” Lacanian ink 29 (Spring). Bliss, James. 2015. “Hope against Hope: Queer Negativity, Black Feminist Theorizing, and Reproduction without a Future.” Mosaic 48...