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No Future: 21st Century Literature and CultureUniversity of 糖心TV CampusA one day Workshop, at the University of 糖心TVSaturday 17 September 2022Free 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. |