{"product_id":"queer-times-black-futures-hardback-9780814748329","title":"Queer Times, Black Futures (Hardback) 9780814748329","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eQueer Times, Black Futures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKara Keeling (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814748329\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 April 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Just when the world seems to be collapsing, \u003ci\u003eQueer Times, Black Futures\u003c\/i\u003e guides us towards an anti-fragile future that exists here and now. The key? Embracing and holding in tension: Afro-futurist freedom dreams, the queer temporalities that animate Black Swans, and the radical refusal and opacity of Herman Melville's Bartleby and Eduoard Glissant's philosophy. If we haven't realized the possibilities that lie waiting in the present, its because the frame of black experience has not yet registered. Moving seamlessly from James Snead to Sun Ra, from Gilbert Simondon to Beth Coleman, Audre Lorde to Gilles Deleuze, Keeling helps us imagine the (im)possible. Stop reading this blurb and start reading this book. Now.\" - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, author of \u003ci\u003eUpdating to Remain the Same\u003c\/i\u003e \"For its contributions to queer constructions of temporality and futurity, in particular in the context of Black media and existence, the text is valuable for queer of color theorists. Professors and students of media, cultural, and\/or communication studies would also find the text useful as it provides analyses of various Black and queer media—transnational films, avantgarde music, and digital technologies.\" (QED) \"Not satisfied to leave readers in the abyss of endless critique, Keeling is concerned with alternative futures and the ethical imagination of 'the time after the future.' \u003ci\u003eQueer Times, Black Futures\u003c\/i\u003e is masterful--deeply engaging, wide ranging, carefully researched, and creative in its use of allegory to demonstrate the potential and effect of opacity for black futures and possibilities.\" - Herman Gray, Emeritus Professor, UC Santa Cruz \"...an incredible, (im)possible work that is invested in worlds to come with the necessary caveat that its readers divest from a critical project that is measured in immediate returns.\" - Courtney R. Baker (Journal of Cinema and Media Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eQueer Times, Black Futures\u003c\/i\u003e considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through racial capitalism. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center Black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and Black freedom.\u003cbr\u003e Keeling reads selected works, such as Sun Ra's 1972 film \u003ci\u003eSpace is the Place\u003c\/i\u003e and the 2005 film \u003ci\u003eThe Aggressives\u003c\/i\u003e, to juxtapose the Afrofuturist tradition of speculative imagination with the similar \"speculations\" of corporate and financial institutions. In connecting a queer, cinematic reordering of time with the new possibilities technology offers, Keeling thinks with and through a vibrant conception of the imagination as a gateway to queer times and Black futures, and the previously unimagined spaces that they can conjure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563877986584,"sku":"9780814748329","price":74.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/queer-times-black-futures-hardback-9780814748329","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}