"Sex, or the Unbearable" is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and
Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics,
and culture. In juxtaposing "sex" and "the unbearable" they don't
propose that sex "is" unbearable, only that it unleashes unbearable
contradictions that we nonetheless struggle to bear. In Berlant and
Edelman's exchange, those terms invoke disturbances produced in
encounters with others, ourselves, and the world, disturbances that
tap into threats induced by fears of loss or rupture as well as by
our hopes for repair.
Through virtuoso interpretations of works of cinema,
photography, critical theory, and literature, including Lydia
Davis's story "Break It Down" (reprinted in full here), Berlant and
Edelman explore what it means to live with negativity, with those
divisions that may be irreparable. Together, they consider how such
negativity affects politics, theory, and intimately felt
encounters. But where their critical approaches differ, neither
hesitates to voice disagreement. Their very discussion--punctuated
with moments of frustration, misconstruction, anxiety, aggression,
recognition, exhilaration, and inspiration--enacts both the
difficulty and the potential of encounter, the subject of this
unusual exchange between two eminent critics and close friends.
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