Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial
again, Lee Edelman's Bad Education proposes a queerness without
positive identity-a queerness understood as a figural name for the
void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape.
Like Blackness, woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman
explains it, designates the antagonism, the structuring negativity,
preventing that order from achieving coherence. But when certain
types of persons get read as literalizing queerness, the negation
of their negativity can seem to resolve the social antagonism and
totalize community. By translating the nothing of queerness into
the something of "the queer," the order of meaning defends against
the senselessness that undoes it, thus mirroring, Edelman argues,
education's response to queerness: its sublimation of irony into
the meaningfulness of a world. Putting queerness in relation to
Lacan's "ab-sens" and in dialogue with feminist and Afropessimist
thought, Edelman reads works by Shakespeare, Jacobs, Almodovar,
Lemmons, and Haneke, among others, to show why queer theory's
engagement with queerness necessarily results in a bad education
that is destined to teach us nothing.
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