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-The ACs political concern for future generations is an attempt to frame the political in terms of reproductive futurism |
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-Lee Edelman. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Recut and published on http://queergeektheory.org/112/Edelman.pdf, Lothian | CORE 112 | Spring 2011 |
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-Public appeals on behalf of ... chlidren are ... impossible to refuse. ... "We're fighting for the children. Whose side are you on?" The affirmation of a value so unquestioned, because so obviously unquestionable, as that of the Child whose innocence solicits our defence ... distinguishes public service announcements from the partisan discourse of political argumentation. But ... the image of the Child invariably shapes the logic within which the political itself must be thought. That logic compels us, to the extent that we would register as politically responsible, to submit to the framing of political debate––and, indeed, of the political field––as defined by the terms of what this book describes as reproductive futurism (2) ... For politics, however radical the means by which specific constituencies attempt to produce a more desirable social order, remains, at its 3 core, conservative insofar as it works to affirm a structure, to authenticate social order, which it then intends to transmit to the future in the form of its inner Child. That Child remains the perpetual horizon of every acknowledged politics, the fantasmatic beneficiary of every political intervention. |
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-Political discourse will inevitably result in reproductive futurism- the figurative chid is our huristic model of politics. Disrupting this model is independently good. |
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-Lee Edelman. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Recut and published on http://queergeektheory.org/112/Edelman.pdf, Lothian | CORE 112 | Spring 2011 |
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-t\for us the telos of the social order and come to be seen as the one for whom that order is held in perpetual trust.” “In its coercive universalization … the image of the Child, not to be confused with the lived experiences of any actual historical children, serves to regulate political discourse—to prescribe what will count as political discourse—by compelling such discourse to accede in advance to the reality of a collective future whose figurative status we are never permitted to acknowledge or address. |