Noah Terrell
20 April, 2017
The Future is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification, and The Death Drive, Lee Edelman
Analysis
As we explore the question of queer time — what it means, how we realize its possibilities, and how to even imagine it to begin with — Lee Edelman’s “The Future is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification, and the Death Drive” provides some…
In “Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Quips”, Alison Kafer posits her arguments as drawing upon queer temporality, but disagreeing at a fundamental level with one of its most significant proponents, Lee Edelman, and his book No…
“The time of undiagnosis” :Queer Futurity and the Politics of Recognition in Alison Kafer’s “Time For Disability Studies and a Future for Crips”
In Chapter 1 of Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer builds on Lee Edelman’s concept of queer time in his essay “The Future Is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification, and the…
In “The Future is Kid Stuff”, Lee Edelman outlines the impact of child-rearing as a concept and shared cultural experience on the world of politics. He interrogates the commonly used trope that politics is about making a ‘better world for our children,’ and tries to construct a queer politics that can be…
Alison’s Kafer’s chapter “Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips”, from her larger work, Feminist, Queer, Crip, offers an in depth critique and reworking of normative temporality…
Alison Kafer’s discussion of how disability studies can help make sense of, or add nuance to, queer time, is a further emphasis on embodiment and how the body works with and through conceptions of queer time. Our discussion last class using Elizabeth Freeman’s work on S/M…