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THE UNPREDICTABLE FUTURE OF FANTASY'S TRAVERSAL

THE UNPREDICTABLE FUTURE OF FANTASY'S TRAVERSAL AbstractThis essay seeks to go beyond the arguments of Lee Edelman's 2004 No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Edelman's book uses Jacques Lacan's theory of the sinthome to critique the homophobic ideology of reproductive futurism, which seeks to guarantee the future in the name of the child. Edelman uses Lacan to argue that queer theory should forgo any engagement with a politics of the future, and that queers should instead embrace the position of the reviled sinthomosexual, whose embrace of jouissance in the Real undercuts reprofuturity. By contrast, this essay offers an alternative interpretation of Lacan's theory of the sinthome that sustains several productive accounts of a future that could lie beyond the fantasy of reproductive futurism – options that are far more promising for queer theory than Edelman's refusal of all politics and signification. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

THE UNPREDICTABLE FUTURE OF FANTASY'S TRAVERSAL

Coffman, Chris
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities , Volume 18 (4): 19 – Dec 1, 2013
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THE UNPREDICTABLE FUTURE OF FANTASY'S TRAVERSAL

Abstract

AbstractThis essay seeks to go beyond the arguments of Lee Edelman's 2004 No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Edelman's book uses Jacques Lacan's theory of the sinthome to critique the homophobic ideology of reproductive futurism, which seeks to guarantee the future in the name of the child. Edelman uses Lacan to argue that queer theory should forgo any engagement with a politics of the future, and that queers should instead embrace the position of the reviled...
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Taylor & Francis
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1469-2899
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10.1080/0969725X.2013.869023
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Abstract

AbstractThis essay seeks to go beyond the arguments of Lee Edelman's 2004 No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Edelman's book uses Jacques Lacan's theory of the sinthome to critique the homophobic ideology of reproductive futurism, which seeks to guarantee the future in the name of the child. Edelman uses Lacan to argue that queer theory should forgo any engagement with a politics of the future, and that queers should instead embrace the position of the reviled sinthomosexual, whose embrace of jouissance in the Real undercuts reprofuturity. By contrast, this essay offers an alternative interpretation of Lacan's theory of the sinthome that sustains several productive accounts of a future that could lie beyond the fantasy of reproductive futurism – options that are far more promising for queer theory than Edelman's refusal of all politics and signification.

Journal

Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis

Published: Dec 1, 2013

Keywords:  psychoanalysis; queer theory; sinthome; temporality; Edelman; Lee; Lacan; Jacques

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