Fabulous, Formless
Fabulous, Formless
Queer Theory’s Dark Precursor
This chapter enlists Gilles Deleuze’s theory of the “dark precursor”—the manner in which the past prefigures its future without determining or representing it—to give a different account of the role antinormativity plays in the past, present, and future of queer theory. By reading Samuel R. Delany’s early fictions as a pos-thumanist problematization of norms of race, gender, sexuality, and species being, and by understanding the problematic split between “afrofuturism” and “queer theory” in the 1990s, we regain a sense of how central blackness has been to the genesis of queer theorizing.
Keywords: Delany, Samuel R, science fiction, afrofuturism, queer theory, The Einstein Intersection (novel), transgender studies, Deleuze, Gilles, antinormativity
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