Queer Times, Black Futures
Kara Keeling
Abstract
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 meditation ... More
Keywords: temporality, queer, black, Afrofuturism, speculation, racial capitalism, technology, digital media, film, the imagination
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780814748329 |
| Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: January 2020 | DOI:10.18574/nyu/9780814748329.001.0001 |
