UID:
almahu_9949195104302882
Format:
1 online resource (256 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781350184367
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9781350184374
Content:
"Rachel Loewen Walker's original study of Deleuze's theory of temporality critically expands our understanding of non-linear time through engagement with queer theory and new feminist materialisms. Loewen draws on the notion of non-linear time in Deleuze's work to advance a conception of 'the living present' as a critical juncture through which new meanings and activism in the fields of feminism, environment, and queerness may be realised. Using literary texts by Jeanette Winterson, and philosophical texts by Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray, Walker reflects on monomythic stories about gender, sexuality, and identity in the context of rapid climate change, and posthumanist politics to tread new ground for Deleuzian studies of time. Speaking to and from feminist, queer, environmental, trans, and crip political movements, Walker uses Deleuze to argue for a 'lived present' which is both mutable and embodied. Such characteristics are presented as essential components in the construction of meaning that is not bound by a static present, past or future. Queer and Deleuzian Temporalities: Toward a Living Present pinpoints the importance of feminist and queer theory to a critical re-evaluation of time. Through a wide-ranging analysis we are able to see how everyone is embedded within rather than outside of time, opening up the possibility for imagining and realising alternate futures both for ourselves and the environment."--
Note:
Includes index.
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Introduction -- Part I: Telling Time -- Chapter 1. Tales from the East, the West, the Queers, and the Rest -- Chapter 2. The Living Present: A Co-Creative Conversation Between Deleuze and Winterson -- Chapter 3. Sexing the Clock: 'Father's Time; Mother's Species' -- Part II: Making Time -- Chapter 4. 'An Erratic and Uneasy Becoming': Queering Time, Reworking the Past -- Chapter 5. Quantum Materialism: Bringing Time and Matter Together in a Feminist Present -- Chapter 6. Thick Time: The Anthropocene's Echoes of the Future -- Chapter 7. An Ethics of Entanglement -- Conclusion -- Index.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781350185494
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350184374
URL:
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