Faculty of Arts Events Calendar
No Future: 21st Century Literature and Culture
Location: 天美传媒 Campus
A one day Workshop, at the 天美传媒
Saturday 17 September 2022
Free and Open to the Public: Please Register by August 5Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
In 2004, in his field-defining book No Future, Lee Edelman stressed a particularly transgressive aspect of 鈥渜ueerness鈥�: 鈥渜ueerness names the side of those not 鈥榝ighting for the children,鈥� the side outside the consensus by which all politics confirms the absolute value of reproductive futurism.鈥� In 2022, with the over-turning of Roe v. Wade in the United States, Edelman鈥檚 insistence on the political breach represented by non-reproductive sexuality seems all the more significant, as the biopolitical project of imposing futurity on sex and particularly on women becomes ever more prominent.
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