Bad EducationLong awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelmans Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identitya 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