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“The joy of repetition really is in you”: Lee Edelman and Hot Chip’s “Over and Over”

March 31, 2010 · by Robin James · in edelman, hot chip, music, queer, repetition

I’m going to argue that Hot Chip’s “Over and Over” (mainly the song, but also somewhat the video) evinces/endorses what Lee Edelman calls “sinthmosexuality.” Queer theorist Lee Edelman argues that, in the West, “queerness” has come to represent the “death…

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