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

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

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