Post-Partum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5789640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee Edelman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 181-185 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Narrative (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-3685 • E-ISSN: 1538-974X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nar.2002.0010 |
| OpenAlex | W4233506842 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In "Queer Post-Politics," his generous and appealingly reasonable response to my essay, "The Future is Kid Stuff," John Brenkman repeats symptomatically the logic of futurism against which I wrote. In doing so, I'd like to suggest, he makes my point by missing it-and missing it not by reason of ignorance, hostility, or haste, but rather by virtue, in large part, of his essay's own virtue: its commitment to reason. Consider how he sets out to make his case by setting up mine from the start: "The horizon of my commentary," he declares, "will be to question whether psychoanalytic concepts can provide the building blocks of political theory, whether they can sustain a viable theory or analysis of the body politic" (174). And then, in order to define his difference from my position, he asserts: "The view that they can is central to Edelman" (174). But what could be further from the point of my essay than the hope of providing such "building blocks"? What except for an interest in sustaining, of all things, "viability," whether of theories and analyses or of "the body politic" itself? Impossibly, against all reason, my project stakes its claim, instead, to the space that "politics" makes unthinkable, the space outside the frame within which "politics" appears and thus outside the conflicting visions that share as their presupposition that the "body politic" must survive. My turn to psychoanalysis, far from seeking to afford us building blocks for a viable political future, aims rather to show how the queer comes to figure resistance to such viability and why, instead of rejecting, as does liberal discourse, the negativity of such a figural determination, we might consider the alternative possibility of accepting and even embracing it
Body politic · Presupposition · Queer theory · Vision · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2013 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |