A review by jenna0010
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by Lee Edelman

2.0

Welp. Edelman's work is helpful in thinking about how the future is tied to the figure of the child, and how this relates to queerness and the death drive, but it is also very hard to get through all of the Lacan, Freud, and heavy jargon here. I also contend with the gap in Edelman's study in naming the whiteness of the future's child, in not addressing thoroughly questions of race. While I can see how pivotal Edelman's work is in thinking through notions of reproductive futurity, queer negativity and the antisocial, I am staying in my own questions about how to hold this, how to tug at it.