From West Indies to East Indies: Archipelagic Interchanges

Boellstorff, Tom

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“…Similarly, Lee Edelman speaks of "reproductive futurism" against which the queer subject represents "no future," and Elizabeth Freeman speaks of "'temporal drag,' with all of the associations that the word 'drag' has with retrogression, delay, and the pull of the past upon the present." 23 In contradistinction to these versions of queer time that leave straight time finally intact, Boellstorff looks to times and places jarringly discontinuous with our own to find examples of temporality that might be redeployed queerly in a twenty-first century, Western context: the "oscillating time" of the ancient Greeks, which he mentions briefly; and "coincidental time," which he adapts from Javanese and Balinese contexts and which could, unlike straight time, privilege "intersection" and "admixture." Coincidental "moments recall not realist narratives of progress but a surrealist aesthetic 'that values fragments, curious collections, [and] unexpected juxtapositions.'"…”

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A Horse's Husband: David Greenspan's Queer Temporalities and the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage

Salvato¹

2011

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Near the end of his solo pieceThe Myopia, an epic burlesque of tragic proportion, prominent playwright and performer David Greenspan presents a pair of scenes in which he investigates, from a queer perspective, the question of time in the theatre. In the spirit ofThe Myopia's own temporally disruptive mechanics, I will describe the second scene first: an Orator and his Doppelganger, who “bears a striking resemblance to the actress Carol Channing,” have a conversation in which they explain to the audience that the overlong fourth act, in whose stead they appear, has been cut from the play. The Doppelganger, who is particularly concerned with keeping good time (and whose “striking resemblance” to Channing is camped in performance as an uncostumed Greenspan does an uncanny vocal impersonation of the actress), looks impatiently at her wrist—as if at a watch—and says that audiences will put up with “telling” in the theatre, as distinct from “showing,” only if the telling is “not too long. People—who of course apprehend words by either reading or listening—might be willing to sit a long time apprehending words by reading but might not be willing to sit a long time apprehending words by listening. Even if they're simultaneously seeing.” Here the Doppelganger, like the Orator, speaks in rhythms explicitly modeled on those of Gertrude Stein, whose essay “Plays” is invoked earlier in the scene. Likewise concerned with the pacing of showing and telling and the phenomenology of audience responses to that pacing, Stein complains famously in “Plays” of theatre's “syncopated time,” its inability to produce an identity between “the emotional time of the play” and spectators' “emotional time as audience.” Stein's own plays do not exactly solve the problem of syncopated time but rather attempt to circumvent the problem altogether by rejecting the theatrical apparatus that, in her view, produces syncopation—that is, “by blurring beyond recognition the distinctions among dialogue, didascalia, and other diegetic language that seems to belong to the province of neither dialogue nor didascalia.”

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A Horse's Husband: David Greenspan's Queer Temporalities and the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage

Salvato¹

2011

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“…It thereby links as well to other 'oceanic' reframings of society and space. For instance, media studies scholars can certainly benefit from deeper engagement with the rich body of work exploring the history and contemporary dynamics of the Indian Ocean with regard to culture and power (Ho, 2006;Hofmeyr, 2007) as well as alternative approaches to conceptualizing regions and area studies (Boellstorff, 2006).…”

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Introduction: media, culture, and change across the Pacific

Boellstorff

Horst

2019

Media, Culture & Society

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This essay introduces the a collection of articles in a special issue focused upon ‘Media, Culture and Change across the Pacific’. It foregrounds the importance of media in reconfiguring our relationships to different categories of place. It asks the following: When does media drive culture change and when might it even act as a conservative force? How do different forms of media, with different patterns of ownership, authorship, and participation, shape social action and cultural personhood?

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Arondekar¹

2010

Comparatively Queer

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From West Indies to East Indies: Archipelagic Interchanges

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A Horse's Husband: David Greenspan's Queer Temporalities and the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage

A Horse's Husband: David Greenspan's Queer Temporalities and the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage

Introduction: media, culture, and change across the Pacific

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