| Abstract: | This essay argues that Lee Edelman's 2004 Edelman, L. 2004. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, Durham: Duke University Press. Crossref] , Google Scholar] No Future, while most well known for challenging the heteronormative fantasy of reproductive futurism, also performs a systematic critique of Lacanian ‘sexual difference’. This essay tracks that critique, showing its moments of success and of failure, and concludes that Edelman's neologism – the sinthomosexual, whose jouissance he believes to be capable of undoing the symbolic order – in fact supports rather than challenges it. |
