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Sex, or the Unbearable Paperback - 2013

by Lauren Berlant; Lee Edelman


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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 discussion--punctuated with moments of frustration, misconstruction, anxiety, aggression, recognition, exhilaration, and inspiration--enacts 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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  • Title Sex, or the Unbearable
  • Author Lauren Berlant; Lee Edelman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 149
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2013-12-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780822355946 / 0822355949
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.5 x 0.4 in (22.86 x 13.97 x 1.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex, Queer theory
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013025531
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.7

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  • Publishers Weekly, 02/10/2014, Page 0

About the author

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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