QUEER AND FEMINIST FUTURES: THE IMPORTANCE OF A FUTURE AND MOBILISING FEMINIST FILM IN POST TIMES
QUEER AND FEMINIST FUTURES: THE IMPORTANCE OF A FUTURE AND MOBILISING FEMINIST FILM IN POST TIMES

Summary/Abstract: This article is concerned with alternative notions of temporality, specifically with alternative imaginings of the future that are important now more than ever. We try to deconstruct the politics of teleologically ordained linear temporalities which can function – if not questioned – as some sort of repetition without any real difference, through conceptualizing time ruptures and intervals, which would open up important ways of thinking about potentialities of the new. We attempt to think about time and the future through queer and Deleuzian feminist film theory, specifically the feminist film Born in Flames. We argue that cinema affects us, opens us up to thinking about potentialities of the new, futurity and new ways of connecting (new forms of communities), and therefore holds crucial transformative potential.

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