Lee Edelman's guest appearances

Lee Edelman

The Critical Lede

The Dissenter

Breaking Down Patriarchy

Queer Lit

Jack Halberstam

Donna Haraway

Andrew Parker

Tony Adams

Liza Johnson

Sharon Holland

Finn Mackay

Jeff Bennett

Val McDermid

Riley Snorton

Lauren Berlant

Peter Stearns

Hanna Rosin

G.W. Bush

Anne Lister

OwlTail

THE Prof Lee Edelman (Tufts) joins me to talk about one of my favourite topics: nothing. Lee’s extremely clever (and incredibly influential) work in queer studies has most recently led him to write an entire book about all the things that nothing can mean and what this has to do with queer life, film, and literature. Lee also talks about his previous work on reproductive futurism and No Future, about awesome queer films, about how knowledge as well as poetry come out of ‘nothing’, and about why queer people aren’t always queer people. Confused yet? Awesome! Let’s go on this queer journey together.If you too like chatting about queer stuff, nothing, and everything, follow @queerlitpodcast on Instagram and Twitter. Works by Lee mentioned:Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire (Stanford, 1987)Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory (Routledge, 1994)No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Duke, 2004)with Lauren Berlant. Sex, or the Unbearable (Duke, 2014)Edelman, Lee. "Learning nothing: bad education." differences 28.1 (2017): 124-173.Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing (Duke, Forthcoming December 2022)Texts, people and concepts mentioned:BadiouAugéLena Mattheis “Silence, Absence, Non-Lieux.” Translocality in Contemporary City Novels (Palgrave, 2021)Susan StrykerHannah Gadbsy’s NanetteCatherine MalabouLuce IrigarayJulia KristevaAfropessimismOntologyW.H. Auden’s “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” (1939)LacanAb-senseAlmodóvar’s La Mala Educación (Bad Education, 2004)Haneke’s Funny Games (1997)Kasi Lemmons’ Eve’s Bayou (1997)Slavoj ŽižekClaude Lévi-StraussJudith ButlerMiscegenationNon-lieuPlato’s atopiaSocratesReproductive futurismQuestions you should be able to respond to after listening:1.Make a list of all the things “nothing” can mean. How would you explain what Lee means when he talks about “nothing”?2.What is Lee’s definition of queerness and/or queer literature?3.Please look up Lee’s No Future and write a brief definition of “reproductive futurism”, a term he also uses in this episode.4.In the episode, we speak about the Auden quotation “Poetry makes nothing happen”. What does this mean for you? Please also look up and read the whole poem (“In Memory of W.B. Yeats”) for context.5.How can film, art, and literature help us understand all of this? Please give an example from the podcast or from your own experience.

THE Prof Lee Edelman (Tufts) joins me to talk about one of my favourite topics: nothing. Lee’s extremely clever (and incredibly influential) work in queer studies has most recently led him to write an entire book about all the things that nothing can mean and what this has to do with queer life, film, and literature. Lee also talks about his previous work on reproductive futurism and No Future, about awesome queer films, about how knowledge as well as poetry come out of ‘nothing’, and about why queer people aren’t always queer people. Confused yet? Awesome! Let’s go on this queer journey together. If you too like chatting about queer stuff, nothing, and everything, follow @queerlitpodcast on Instagram and Twitter. Works by Lee mentioned: Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire (Stanford, 1987) Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory (Routledge, 1994) No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Duke, 2004) with Lauren Berlant. Sex, or the Unbearable (Duke, 2014) Edelman, Lee. "Learning nothing: bad education." differences 28.1 (2017): 124-173. Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing (Duke, Forthcoming December 2022) Texts, people and concepts mentioned: Badiou Augé Lena Mattheis “Silence, Absence, Non-Lieux.” Translocality in Contemporary City Novels (Palgrave, 2021) Susan Stryker Hannah Gadbsy’s Nanette Catherine Malabou Luce Irigaray Julia Kristeva Afropessimism Ontology W.H. Auden’s “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” (1939) Lacan Ab-sense Almodóvar’s La Mala Educación (Bad Education, 2004) Haneke’s Funny Games (1997) Kasi Lemmons’ Eve’s Bayou (1997) Slavoj Žižek Claude Lévi-Strauss Judith Butler Miscegenation Non-lieu Plato’s atopia Socrates Reproductive futurism Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1.Make a list of all the things “nothing” can mean. How would you explain what Lee means when he talks about “nothing”? 2.What is Lee’s definition of queerness and/or queer literature? 3.Please look up Lee’s No Future and write a brief definition of “reproductive futurism”, a term he also uses in this episode. <a href="http://4.In" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">4.In</a> the episode, we speak about the Auden quotation “Poetry makes nothing happen”. What does this mean for you? Please also look up and read the whole poem (“In Memory of W.B. Yeats”) for context. 5.How can film, art, and literature help us understand all of this? Please give an example from the podcast or from your own experience.

"Queering Nothing" Lee Edelman

In this episode, Lee Edelman &amp; Lauren Berlant discuss their new dialogic book, Sex, or the Unbearable (Duke University Press).

Lee Edelman & Lauren Berlant Discuss Sex, or the Unbearable