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 resolve the social antagonism and totalize community. By translating the nothing of queerness into the something of “the queer,” the order of meaning defends against the senselessness that undoes it, thus mirroring, Edelman argues, education’s response to queerness: its sublimation of irony into the meaningfulness of a world. Putting queerness in relation to Lacan’s “ab-sens” and in dialogue with feminist and Afropessimist thought, Edelman reads works by Shakespeare, Jacobs, Almodóvar, Lemmons, and Haneke, among others, to show why queer theory’s engagement with queerness necessarily results in a bad education that is destined to teach us nothing.
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Executive Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials Selection in Structural Design
- 3 Enhancing the Materials Selection Process in Design: A Vision
- 4 Information Technologies Pertinent to the Materials Selection Process
- 5 Conclusions and Recommendations
- References
- Appendix A: Glossary of Acronyms
- Appendix B: Case Studies Reviewed by the Committee
- Appendix C: Review of Selected Knowledge-Representation Techniques and Tools
- Appendix D: Knowledge-Based Integrated Design System
- Appendix E: An Intelligent Knowledge System for Selection of Materials for Critical Aerospace Applications
- Appendix F: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
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