... body—impact our work as queer theorists? What would it mean to absorb a radicalized po- sition visvis abortion into discourse on queer sex politics? As it happens, abortion plays a key role in Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, perhaps the most hotly debated text...

... lives are not, after all, our own, but not with instructions for what to do about that. I think that Professor Eribon recognizes that when Lee Edelman insists we abjure the political, he risks negating the past as well as the future. This is partly because, in Edelman’s own...

... Edelman's more recent claim that "there is no discourse on AIDS that is not itself diseased," the notion that the AIDS crisis confounds any easy dis- tinction between materiality and discourse, reality and representa- tion, remains a patent reading of the cultural response...

... becomes explicit in many books that appear shortly after Massumi’s Parables for the Virtual. Heather Love’s and Lee Edelman’s versions of queer affect theory both ask about how much choice the conscious self has in privileging some affective states over others, and how much value...

... participating in negative affects as well. “Like writing,” Lee Edelman writes, “homographesis would name a double operation.”23 Like writing and homographesis, liking likewise names a double operation. “By exposing the non- coincidence of what appears to be the same,” liking, like homog...

.... Berlant, Lauren and Lee Edelman. Sex, or the Unbearable. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. Biers, Katherine. Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Pro- gressive Era. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Boone, Joseph Allen. The Homoerotics of Orientalism. New York...

... Intimacies likewise slips and stumbles between the anti- sociality of Lee Edelman, the wary critique of Lauren Berlant, and the impossible daydream of José Munoz.4 While at times frus- trating (is virtual intimacy supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing McGlotten’s book does...

... else, an ideal of a nonreproductive self. It is not at all surprising that the principal theoretic reference in Lee Edelman’s book, titled precisely No Future, is the work of Jacques Lacan, throughout whose writing runs the very structure of the homopho- bic ideology...

...- experiment that exposes the limits of posthuman theory and shows that we can get posthuman only at the death of the subject” (“zm,” 87). Lauro and Embry are not the fi rst to suggest this. Indeed, their argument resonates with Lee Edelman’s asser- tion in No Future: Queer Theory...

... critiqued for some time: Guy Hocquenghem, Leo Bersani, and Lee Edelman have all af- fi rmed queer desire as antisocial and antireproductive, the enemy of the temporizing economies of the dominant heteronormative order.2 And this critique has in turn produced renewed refl ection...

... comes permission to be tired. In the dialogue “Sex without Optimism,” Lee Edelman and Lauren Berlant “see sex as a site for experiencing this intensified encounter with what disorganizes accustomed ways of being.” 57 That said, the supposed sex in this scene is not just la petite mort but actual...

... this condition. 7. On the child as a screen for the ideological projects, and projections, of adults, see Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), and James Kincaid, Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian...

... investment. This queer desire links Duras with Lee Edelman, in title and in spirit, in the quest for an antisocial and anti- reproductive temporality that could not be economized, captured, or instrumentalized by the dominant orders of normativity and produc- tivity. The essay takes us...

... , Koch Josef , Quint Josef , Weiß Konrad , and Zimmermann Albert . Frankfurt am Main : Deutscher Klassiker Verlag , 1993 . Edelman Lee . No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2004 . Esposito Roberto...

... of the uni- versity, see Mark Edelman Boren, Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject (New York: Routledge, 2001). 8. Ian Angus, Love the Questions: University Education and Enlighten- ment (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2009). 9. This issue is taken up in great detail in Henry...