...Alexis Lothian The theme of this and the previous special issue has been a flashpoint in the interdisciplinary field of queer studies since Lee Edelman's influential No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004). Edelman argues that to be queer is to oppose futurity, coining the term...

...Caitríona Ní Dhúill If human reproduction is a realm of future-making practice, its refusal or absence effects a reconceptualization of the future. The article examines three very different refusals of the child: the idealist antinatalism of Otto Weininger's Sex and Character (1903), the queer...

... to show (1)why it appeared useful for literary theory and what happens when literature is construed as fundamentally performative; (2) how it functions in theory and criticism associated with deconstruction, and (3) what role it plays in recent work in gender studies and queer theory, where Judith Butler...

... at Sapir Academic Col- lege, Israel. He is currently working on his first scholarly monograph, titledA Deleuzian Critique of Queer Thought: Overcoming Sexuality. His recent articles on the schizoanalysis of queer-feminist alliances and on queer translation appeared in the volumeDeleuze...

.../diegesis/article/view/357 . Bagnall Gregory L. 2017 . “ Queer(ing) Gaming Technologies: Thinking on Constructions of Normativity Inscribed in Digital Gaming Hardware .” In Queer Game Studies , edited by Ruberg Bonnie and Shaw Adrienne , 135 – 44 . Minneapolis : University...

... an unquestionable erotic attachment such as Hetta Carbury s inexplicable love for Paul Montague in The Way We Live Now ([1875] 2008) can drive narrative tension. But his real aim here is to defend essentialism as an anchor for queer politics. I am what I am should be the invert s motto, wrote Edith Ellis...

... University Press. Moten, Fred. 2018b. The Universal Machine. Durham: Duke University Press. Mun oz, Jose´ Esteban. 2009. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: New York University Press. Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth. 2016. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham, NC: Duke...

... Press ). Goldberg Jonathan 1983 James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne, and Their Contemporaries ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press ). Goldberg Jonathan Menon Madhavi 2005 “Queering History,” PMLA 120 ( 5 ): 1608 – 17...

... © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Notes on Contributors Alexis Lothian is assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is completing Old Futures: The Queer Cultural Politics of Speculative Fiction and has published...

... York : Oxford University Press . Kukkonen Karin . 2018 . “ A Moving Target—Cognitive Narratology and Feminism .” Textual Practice 32 , no. 6 : 973 – 89 . Lanser Susan S . 2017 . “ Comparatively Lesbian: Queer/Feminist Theory and the Sexuality of History ”. In Futures...

... 2006 “The Hermaphrodite in the Abyss: Queering Poe's Pym.” Edgar Allan Poe Review 7 , no. 1 : 49 – 60 . Merivale Patricia Sweeney Susan , eds. 1998 Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press...

... of deconstruction, Marxism, and queer and decolonial thought. Among other projects, he is currently working on an edition of the correspondence between Louis Althusser and Jacques Derrida. Herman Rapaport is Reynolds Professor of English at Wake Forest Univer- sity and is author of Derrida on Exile and the Nation...

... of the steadily growing class of nonhegemonic investigators: lesbian detec- tives. Queer theory, with its strict interrogation of sexual structure and func- tion and its insistence on an irresolvable paradox underlying, and thereby undermining...

... University and a lecturer in media studies and media education at Osnabrück University, Germany. Her PhD project focusses on the forms and functions of metareference in videogames. Publications include “No Straight Answers: Queering Hegemonic Masculinity in BioWare's Mass Effect ” ( Game Studies 2018...

... Hardy Journal, the Routledge Companion to Queer Theory and Modernism, and the V21 Collective. His public writ- ing has appeared in Slate, the Nation, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Point, the Hedgehog Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. DanielWilliams is assistant professor...

... in Valente’s collection, on the other hand, the purpose is not so much the explanatory value of homoeroticism as the more complex view of sexual and social relations that attention to ‘‘queer’’ sensibility affords. In his introduction Valente unpacks the collec- tion’s title by referring to Joyce’s...

... © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 216 Poetics Today 32:2 struction, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies). Yet styles of academic reading are affective as well as cognitive, inviting us to adopt atti- tudes of trust, impatience, reverence, or wariness toward...

.... The Universal Machine. Durham: Duke University Press. Mun oz, Jose´ Esteban. 2009. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: New York University Press. Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth. 2016. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Katherine Thorsteinson Cornell...

... Kosofsky 1997 “ Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction Is about You .” In Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction , edited by Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky , 1 – 37 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Standing Guy 2011...

... Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction Is about You,” in Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction , edited by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1 -37 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press). Simonnet, Claude 1981 [1962] Queneau déchiffré (Geneva: Slatkine...