... refusal of reproductive futurism in Lee Edelman's No Future (2004), and the negation of the thinkability of fatherhood through the trauma of Auschwitz in Imre Kertész's Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990). The complexity and incommensurability of the critical stances of antireproductive antifuturism...

... imaginary can be identified and denounced at will. Similarly, Edelman’s notion of the queer as negative antireproductive force becomes that which opposes fascist politics by virtue of its opposition to the baby’s face, even if queerness in and of itself has no political content. Yet Edelman’s image...

... a positive or a 40 negative truth judgment, and if the second, counts as either a lie or a miss. What my repertoire of antireproductive forms establishes, inter alia, is the flexibility of such values or judgments, rather than their wholesale suspen...