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List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface: The Monomyth
Introduction
1. Telling Time: From Deleuze to Heraclitus and from Queer Theory to Indigenous Ways of Knowing
2. The Living Present: A Co-Creative Conversation between Deleuze and Winterson
3. Quantum Materialism: Bringing Time and Matter Together in a Feminist Future
4. “An Erratic and Uneasy Becoming”: Queering Time, Reworking the Past
5. Thick Time: Echoes of the Anthropocene
6. An Ethics of Entanglement
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Rachel Loewen Walker is the Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights with the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Summary
Rachel Loewen Walker’s original study of Deleuze's theory of temporality advances a concept of the living present as a critical juncture through which novel meanings and activisms take flight in relation to new feminist materialisms, queer theory, Indigenous studies, and studies of climate.
Drawing on literature, philosophy, popular culture, and community research, Loewen Walker unsettles the fierce linearity of our stories, particularly as they uphold fixed systems of gender, sexuality, and identity. Treading new ground for Deleuzian studies, this book focuses on the non-linearity of the living present to show that everything is within rather than outside of time. Through this critical re-evaluation, which takes in climate change, queer and trans politics, and Indigenous sovereignty, Queer and Deleuzian Temporalities “thickens” the present moment. By opening up multiple pasts and multiple futures we are invited to act with a deepened level of accountability to all possible timelines.
Foreword
Brings Deluze’s theory of time into conversation with feminist theory, queer theory and ecological crisis, to suggest new forms of engagement and activism in the present.
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Walker’s superbly written book strikes an impressive balance between intimacy and theoretical rigor. Incorporating indigenous, marginalized, and queer knowledges with Deleuzian temporality and new materialist insistence on the visceral thickness of experience, Walker carves out new political and ethical possibilities and vividly captures the interwoven complexity of the living present.
