The Queer Temporalities of<i>Queer Temporalities</i>

Freeman, Elizabeth

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“…72 Central to this schol ar ship is a concern with the queer chronopolitics enacted by a range of im pro vi sa tional fig ures for un/time li ness, such as the as-yet-un re al ized uto pia, the spec ter, and pro duc tive failure. 73 To line up some ex am ples, let me once more evoke Muñoz, who has deployed queer uto pia draw ing on Bloch's "not-yet." 74 Carla Freccero has de lin eated the long his tory of as so ci a tion be tween ghost li ness and ho mo sex u al ity that haunts the liv ing pres ent of those who have an ec cen tric re la tion to tem po ral pro pri e ty.…”

Section: Queer Contretemps Arts Of the Im-pos Si Blementioning

confidence: 99%

At Odds with the Temporalities of the Im-possible; or, What Critical Theory Can (Still) Do

Athanasiou¹

2020

Critical Times

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This essay engages with the question of critical possibility—or, the possibility of critique—and, more specifically, the political temporalities that sustain critical potential in the present and for the future. The essay asks whether and how the aesthetic can serve as a resource for making sense of the question of possibility and for developing a conception of critical subjectivity. To question what critical theory might still do in the present treats critique as an experience of the im-possible, and yet as a transformative force for shifting the conditions of possibility for knowledge production. In this way, this essay seeks to address the aporetic elements in the utopian thinking of critical theory.

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Section: Queer Contretemps Arts Of the Im-pos Si Blementioning

confidence: 99%

At Odds with the Temporalities of the Im-possible; or, What Critical Theory Can (Still) Do

Athanasiou¹

2020

Critical Times

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“…The notion of unscripting is key here – queer temporalities involve exposing, and displacing, dominant narratives so that other modes of life writing may find a place. Elizabeth Freeman puts this idea more forcefully when she points out that ‘far from being a set of empty containers – minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, periods – into which our experience gets poured’, time is ‘a tool for the naturalization of power relations’ that is ‘actively constructed’ (2019: 93). As such, ‘turning the lens onto time’ is a critical move if we want to expose how its construction perpetuates the ideological exclusion of nonconformists through cultural forms such as literature, political rhetoric, and I would add, law (2019: 93).…”

Section: Time To Marrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Queer Temporalities and Transgender Rights: A Hong Kong Case Study

Wan

2020

Social & Legal Studies

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This article investigates how theoretical explorations of queer time can shed light on our understanding of law. Taking transgender rights in Hong Kong as a case study, it argues that legal judgments can entrench normative temporal structures and impose tropes such as linearity, futurity, and finality onto the life scripts of trans subjects. Through close readings of the Court of Final Appeal decision in W v. Registrar of Marriages and the recent judicial review challenges that have emerged in its aftermath, it demonstrates how the cases exclude transqueer individuals who do not fit into those temporal trajectories from the realm of rights protection. It also suggests ways of thinking about the temporalities of transgender issues differently. The analysis here stages an encounter between law and literary/cultural theory, and provides a new perspective on the current state of transgender rights in Hong Kong.

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“…Indeed, much ink has been spilled on the questions of futurity and uncertainty. A few important frames for these discussions include: risk (Beck ; Douglas and Douglas ; Douglas and Wildavsky ; Mitchell ), terrorism (de Goede and Randalls ), queer theory (Freeman ; Halberstam ; Muñoz ; Puar ), scenario building and pre‐emption (Anderson ), insurance (Duffield ), financialisation (Martin ; Maurer ), the Anthropocene (Amin ; Yusoff ; Woelfle‐Erskin and Cole ), as well as new forms of predictive analytics with the emergence of big data (Leszczynski ; Tazzioli ; White ). As Mitchell () notes, whether these logics assume futures conceived of as open and multiple (what if) or closed and inevitable (when/then), both reflect the rational calculative modes of governance inherent in advanced liberalism.…”

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confidence: 99%

“… The scholarship on queer temporalities is an important counter to these readings, as it emphasises the transgressive potential of lived temporalities. This body of work unpacks the ways in which queer lived temporalities challenge normative conceptions of time, in part by attending to practices that queerly uncouple futurity from social reproduction (Freeman ; Halberstam ). …”

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Uncertain futures and everyday hedging in a humanitarian city

Newhouse

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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In this paper, I take up diverse ways in which the uncertain future mobilises action in the now, and consider what kinds of socialities and economies such actions toward the future produce. Thinking from the vantage point of Juba, South Sudan, I show how the openness of space and time to emergence shape the everyday practices of anticipating, hedging for and living through a future and present that is radically uncertain. I argue that the defining features of such everyday hedging are (i) an implicitly spatial frame of comparison, (ii) a fraught interdependence between lack of reliable knowledge and calculative practices and finally (iii) their capacity to generate value in the face of risk. I consider futurity and elsewheres as modalities of difference – that is, as conditions for the unfolding of becoming and the emergence of the new, as well as requirements for surprise. Although Juba may be considered a limit case, I argue that practices of everyday hedging – whatever their particularities – are critical to better understanding futurity and the complex socialities on which the economic relies.

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The Queer Temporalities ofQueer Temporalities

Cited by 78 publications

References 4 publications

At Odds with the Temporalities of the Im-possible; or, What Critical Theory Can (Still) Do

At Odds with the Temporalities of the Im-possible; or, What Critical Theory Can (Still) Do

Queer Temporalities and Transgender Rights: A Hong Kong Case Study

Uncertain futures and everyday hedging in a humanitarian city

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