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I have started the laborious yet fun—I am a nerd, remember? Today I am thinking about my Queering Theory course. Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Indeed, at the heart of my polemical engagement with the cultural texts lies a simple provocation: So, what does this mean and what are the implications for our ethical and political projects? Some unpacking of terms is needed here. Simply put, reproductive futurism is the belief that our participation in politics—indeed, the political itself—is motivated by a belief in and a desire for creating better futures for our children.

Wow, I hope that makes sense. Now, why does Edelman make this radical claim? I have only just barely skimmed the introduction and table of contents of this book, so I am having a difficult time explaining all of this in coherent, compelling and intelligible non-jargony ways. Clearly, I need to engage in a much closer reading of this text.

The more I think about his ideas, the more I think I want to use this in my class. It raises some great questions for my own work and for one way I am thinking of organizing the course: What could a radically negative politics looks like? Are negativity and a refusal to engage in political projects aimed at transformation or ethical projects aimed at striving for the good what queer is essentially about?

Is the only way in which to imagine a queer ethics negatively and in opposition to any claims, normative or otherwise? I am fairly sure that I want to use several chapters out of this book as well.

Now I just need to think about how to put them in conversation with Judith Butler, who remains a big focus of the class. It seems appropriate to follow my last post on Michael Jackson and hope both the loss of it and how we might rethink it with this one on no future and the death drive.

There is another connection with which I want to end this post. The idea of no future, at least at first glance, indicates that we need to function without hope. If there is no future no better world on the horizon , there is no hope that things will be different.

Edelman seems to be rejecting the possibility for queer hope. But is hope fundamentally counter to queer? Can we imagine these things together? In my last post, I pointed to Cornel West and his tragic hope as one that is counter to the vision of hope as innocent the Child?

After all, he is very invested in defending and revaluing parents. A future article, perhaps? Michael Jackson, the s version pre-MTV, pre-surgery, pre-loss of hope, pre-spectacle. For Students, part 1.