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    Lee Edelman's book Bad Education argues that queer theory teaches us nothing because it proposes a queerness without positive identity, understood as a void around which social order is organized. Edelman explains queerness as designating the antagonism and structuring negativity that prevents social order from achieving coherence. The book suggests that when certain types of persons get read as embodying queerness, the negation of their negativity can undermine queer theory's potential to critique the social order.

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    Lee Edelman's book Bad Education argues that queer theory teaches us nothing because it proposes a queerness without positive identity, understood as a void around which social order is organized. Edelman explains queerness as designating the antagonism and structuring negativity that prevents social order from achieving coherence. The book suggests that when certain types of persons get read as embodying queerness, the negation of their negativity can undermine queer theory's potential to critique the social order.

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    Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing.: Durham: Duke University Press

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    Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing.

    Lee Edelman - 2022 - Durham:
    Duke University Press.
    Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman's Bad
    Education proposes a queerness without positive identity-a queerness understood as a figural
    name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness,
    woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman explains it, designates the antagonism, the
    structuring negativity, preventing that order from achieving coherence. But when certain types
    of persons get read as literalizing queerness, the negation of their negativity can seem to (...)

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