Lee Edelman Quotes

Lee Edelman is an American literary critic and academic. He is a professor of English at Tufts University. He is the author of four books. Wikipedia

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“The various positivities produced ... by the logic of political hope depend on the mathematical illusion that negated negations might somehow escape, and not redouble, such negativity.”

Lee Edelman

Source: No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004), p. 5

“I argue, then, that we might do well to attempt what is surely impossible—to withdraw our allegiance, however compulsory, from a reality based on the Ponzi scheme of reproductive futurism.”

Lee Edelman

Source: No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004), p. 4

“Far from partaking of this narrative movement toward a viable political future, far from perpetuating the fantasy of meaning's eventual realization, the queer comes to figure the bar to every realization of futurity, the resistance, internal to the social, to every social structure or form.”

Lee Edelman

Source: No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004), p. 4

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