No Future

"No Future" is a nuanced polemic, both ringingly clear in its aesthetic and theoretical explications and simply thrilling to read. I learn so much from the way Lee Edelman grounds a queer ethics and politics outside kinship and reproductive circuits, those spaces of assimilation that use the bribe of futurity to distract us from the ongoing work of social violence and death. "-Lauren Berlant, author of "The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship"