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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The following people played significant roles in the production of this

book. A number of them invited me to give lectures that later developed
into chapters; others raised questions that sharpened or helped clarify
its argument. Some assisted in the preparation of the manuscript and
the images used to illustrate it, while others were invaluable in the edit-
ing and design of the book it now has become. Still others, whether they
knew it or not, gave me the courage to let this argument go as far as
it demanded. All, in their various ways, provided the intellectual com-
panionship without which such a project as this could never be sus-
tained. It gives me great pleasure to name their names and to acknowl-
edge their importance to this book: Richard Allen, Nancy Armstrong,
Matthew Bell, Courtney Berger, Lauren Berlant, Leo Bersani, John Brenk-
Copyright 2004. Duke University Press Books.

man, Judith Brown, Amy Ruth Buchanan, Oliver Buckton, Bonnie Burns,
William Cain, Robert Caserio, Jane Chance, Rey Chow, Douglas Crimp,
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Andrew Cunningham, Sheila Emerson, Diana Fuss, Jane Gallop, Marjo-

rie Garber, Jonathan Goldberg, Sam Ishii Gonzales, Ellis Hanson, Jona-
than Gil Harris, Sonia Hofkosh, Judith Hoover, Barbara Johnson, Eliza-
beth Langland, Kate Lothman, Robert K. Martin, Pamela Matthews,
Madhavi Menon, David McWhirter, Helena Michie, D. A. Miller, Leland
Monk, Michael Moon, Paul Morrison, Mary Ann O’Farrell, Joe Parenteau,
Donald Pease, Frances Restuccia, Valerie Rohy, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,
Ashley Shelden, Catharine Spencer, Henry Turner, Rebecca Walkowitz,
and Ken Wissoker.
A special word of thanks must go to Alan, Erica, Larry, Joni, Leah,
Avi, Sam, Greg, Doug, Brian, and Ben. However much they might wish
it otherwise, they are part of this book as well.
My debt to Joseph Litvak is in a category of its own and continues,
daily, accumulating interest beyond my ability to repay it. His generosity,
both emotional and intellectual, makes better everything it touches and
I count myself singularly fortunate to be able to owe him so very much.
I would like to thank the Trustees of Tufts College for funding the sab-
batical during which I completed work on this book. I am also grateful to
Susan Ernst, the Dean of Arts and Sciences, for providing the necessary
funds to obtain the stills that appear in the text.
The following chapters, in different, and in all cases significantly
shorter, form, have already appeared in print. I am happy to acknowledge
the publishers who have given me permission to include them here.
Chapter 1 was published, in an earlier version, as ‘‘The Future is Kid
Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification, and the Death Drive,’’ in Narrative
(January 1998).
Much of what now appears as chapter 2 was originally published as
‘‘Sinthom-osexuality’’ in Aesthetic Subjects, edited by Pamela R. Matthews
and David McWhirter; copyright 2003 by the Regents of the University
of Minnesota. Reprinted by permission of the University of Minnesota
Press.
Most of chapter 4 was originally published in Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary
Essays, edited by Richard Allen and S. Ishii Gonzales (BFI, 1999).
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Isn’t there something in analytic

discourse that can introduce us

to the following: that every

subsistence or persistence of the

world as such must be abandoned?

JACQUES LACAN

Yes, I was thinking: we live

without a future. That’s what’s queer . . .

VIRGINIA WOOLF
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