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1 online resource (xv, 273 pages) |
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Sexual cultures |
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Sexual cultures.
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| Contents |
Another litany for survival -- 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." |
| Summary |
A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures 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. Keeling reads selected works, such as Sun Ra's 1972 film Space is the Place and the 2005 film The Aggressives, 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.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Kara Keeling is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. Keeling is the author of The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense (2007) and the co-editor (with Josh Kun) of a selection of writings about sound and American Studies entitled Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies, and (with Colin MacCabe and Cornel West) of European Pedigrees/African Contagions: Racist Traces and Other Writing, a selection of writings by the late James A. Snead |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 13, 2019) |
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African American sexual minorities.
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Queer theory.
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African Americans in mass media.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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African American sexual minorities
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African Americans in mass media
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Queer theory
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African American LGBTQ+ people.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781479841998 |
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1479841994 |
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