Lonely

South Atlantic Quarterly

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 445-457

  Cobb, Michael ^a  

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EID: 54049104787     PISSN: 00382876     EISSN: 15278026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2007-003     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. For an example of this important line of inquiry, see Michael Warner, The Trouble with Normal (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
2. Thomas Laqueur, Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation (New York: Zone Books, 2004), 23.
3. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951; San Diego: Harcourt, 1976), 478. Subsequent citations will be given parenthetically by page number.
4. I'm thinking of figures of loneliness and problematic coupling in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl" and "A Poem Is Being Written," in Tendencies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993), 109-129 and 177-214;
5. Leo Bersani, Homos (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995);
6. and, in a way, Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). Sedgwick's focus on the ways that the witnessing of masturbatory desire can teach us much about modern sexual identities is, typically, excellent. I'd like to resist, however, a reliance on sexual desire in my preliminary investigations of loneliness.
7. Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, and Subjectivity (London: British Film Institute, 2004), 67. Subsequent citations will be given parenthetically by page number.
8. Sedgwick, "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl," 129.
9. Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic (New York: Pantheon, 2003), 26. Subsequent citations will be given parenthetically by page number.
10. See all of Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997).
11. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1968), 223.
12. Walter Benjamin, "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire," in Illuminations, 193.
13. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), 47.
14. Sigmund Freud, "On Narcissism," in Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, trans. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1953), 14:85. Thanks to Ann Pellegrini for reminding me, over nachos, about Freud's worry after love sickness.
15. Anne Carson, "Every Exit Is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)," in Decreation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), 20.