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Sex, or the Unbearable

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By (author): Lauren Berlant Lee Edelman

Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propose that sex is unbearable, only that it unleashes unbearable contradictions that we nonetheless struggle to bear. In Berlant and Edelman's exchange, those terms invoke disturbances produced in encounters with others, ourselves, and the world, disturbances that tap into threats induced by fears of loss or rupture as well as by our hopes for repair.

Through virtuoso interpretations of works of cinema, photography, critical theory, and literature, including Lydia Davis's story Break It Down (reprinted in full here), Berlant and Edelman explore what it means to live with negativity, with those divisions that may be irreparable. Together, they consider how such negativity affects politics, theory, and intimately felt encounters. But where their critical approaches differ, neither hesitates to voice disagreement. Their very discussionpunctuated with moments of frustration, misconstruction, anxiety, aggression, recognition, exhilaration, and inspirationenacts both the difficulty and the potential of encounter, the subject of this unusual exchange between two eminent critics and close friends.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 227g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Dec 2013
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780822355946

About Lauren BerlantLee Edelman

Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Cruel Optimism The Female Complaint and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City all also published by Duke University Press.Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. He is the author of L'impossible Homosexuel; No Future also published by Duke University Press; and Homographesis.

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