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cord-031409-7cs1z6x6	Baraitser, Lisa	The maternal death drive: Greta Thunberg and the question of the future	2020-09-04		.txt	text/plain	8265	357	58	Drawing on earlier work, this paper develops the notion of a 'maternal death drive' that supplements Freud's death drive by accounting for repetition that retains a relation to the developmental time of 'life' but remains 'otherwise' to a life drive. The temporal form of this 'life in death' is that of 'dynamic chronicity', analogous to late modern narratives that describe the present as 'thin' and the time of human futurity as running out. The maternal (death drive) alerts us to a new figure of a child whose task is to carry expectations and anxieties about the future and bind them into a reproductive present. In many ways, the death drive is a temporal concept, holding together the paradoxical time in which repetition contains within it a backwards pull towards the no-time of the living organism, even as the shape of this relation describes 'a life'.	./cache/cord-031409-7cs1z6x6.txt	./txt/cord-031409-7cs1z6x6.txt