| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Sexual cultures
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NYU scholarship online
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Sexual cultures.
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| Note |
Previously issued in print: 2019. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Contestations over 'the future' and 'futurity' have been central to formulations of time throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. 'Queer Times, Black Futures' considers the implications of scholarly, artistic, and popular investments in the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation that have persisted in Euro-American culture. Of specific interest are those Afrofuturist cultural forms and logics through which creative engagements with Black existence, technology, space, and time might be accessed and analyzed. Punctuated throughout by meditations on Herman Melville's story 'Bartleby the Scrivener, ' his project thinks with and through a vibrant concept of the imagination as a way to open onto perceptions of queer times and black futures, and of the spatial politics that might be associated with them. |
| Audience |
Specialized. |
| Contents |
Preface: another litany for survival -- Introduction: black futures and the queer times of life: finance, flesh, and the imagination -- Interregnum: the unaccountable Bartleby -- "It's after the end of the world (don't you know that yet?)": Afrofuturism and transindividuation -- Yet still: queer temporality, black political possibilities, and poetry from the future (of speculative pasts) -- Interlude: the sonic Bartleby : the digital regime of the image and musical speech -- Black cinema and questions concerning film/media/technology -- "Corporate cannibal": risk, errantry, and imagination in the age of catastrophe -- Intercession: the de-American Bartleby: archipelagoes, refusal, and the cosmic -- "World galaxy". |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: Unlimited |
| Subject |
African American sexual minorities.
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Queer theory.
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African Americans in mass media.
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African American sexual minorities. |
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African Americans in mass media. |
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Queer theory. |
| Other Form: |
Print version : 9780814748329 |
| ISBN |
9781479841998 (ebook) |
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1479841994 |
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