"This project stakes its claim to the very space that "politics" makes unthinkable: the space outside the framework within which politics as we know it appears and so outside the conflict of visions that share as their presupposition that the body politic must survive. Indeed, at the heart of my polemical engagement with the cultural text of politics and the politics of cultural texts lies a simple provocation: that queerness names the side of those not "fighting for the children," the side outside the consensus by which all politics confirms the absolute value of reproductive futurism."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
LGBT peopleAcademics from the United StatesLiterary criticsNon-fiction authors from the United StatesJews from the United States
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
p. 3
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Edelman
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Lee Edelman
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Lee Edelman →
Related Quotes
"Such "self-evident" one-sidedness—the affirmation of a value so unquestioned, because so obviously unquestionab…"
"Far from partaking of this narrative movement toward a viable political future, far from perpetuating the fantasy of …"
"I argue, then, that we might do well to attempt what is surely impossible—to withdraw our allegiance, however c…"
"The various positivities produced ... by the logic of political hope depend on the mathematical illusion that negated…"
"Scientific education is catholic; it embraces the whole field of human learning. No student can master all knowledge …"
"Honest investigation is but the application of common sense to the solution of the unknown. Science does not wait on …"
"Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libat…"
"The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language."
"Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a v…"
"The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, cons…"