An Impossible Embrace: Queerness, Futurity, and the Death Drive

Tim Dean

doi:10.5422/fso/9780823229192.003.0009

An Impossible Embrace: Queerness, Futurity, and the Death Drive

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This chapter argues that the death drive can also be a force of invention and creation rather than a will to destruction. The emphasis on the creative yet impersonal agency of the drive contests the ideological alignment of the future with heteronormative kinship structures or reproductive politics, and thus resonates with group formation based on kinship.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	A Time for the Humanities
Subtitle of host publication	Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy
Editors	James J. Bono, Tim Dean, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Fordham University Press
Pages	122-140
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Print)	9780823229192
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5422/fso/9780823229192.003.0009
State	Published - Nov 2008
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

queerness
futurity
death drive
kinship
heteronomy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences

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An Impossible Embrace: Queerness, Futurity, and the Death Drive

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