David Valentine

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Evidently SF

Theorizing the Contemporary

Evidently SF

Here’s an evidently SF—science fiction/spookily familiar/strangely or strongly factual/so far—story: tired of a space agency’s bureaucratic inefficiency, an e... More

Martian

Theorizing the Contemporary

Martian

Mars has long featured in Euro-American imaginaries of both civilizational and primitive monstrosity: from Percival Lowell’s canals and H. G. Wells’s War of the... More

Autobiography, Queer Time, and the Future

Theorizing the Contemporary

Autobiography, Queer Time, and the Future

Maddeningly, I missed all but the last few minutes of this conversation, due not so much to queer time as to Google time, which moved all my calendar appointmen... More

A Question from Bruno Latour

Theorizing the Contemporary

A Question from Bruno Latour

I would like to know how the “no future” in the title of your roundtable currently resonates with queer anthropology. You have mentioned something that is very ... More