TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lothian,Alexis
TI  - Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility 
T2  - Postmillennial Pop
SN  - 9781479811748
AV  - PN3448.S64 L68 2019
U1  - 809.3876 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Future, The, in literature
KW  - Gender identity in literature
KW  - Speculative fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Afrofuturism
KW  - American fiction
KW  - British fiction
KW  - LGBT
KW  - affect
KW  - black feminism
KW  - black queer studies
KW  - blackness
KW  - digital
KW  - dystopia
KW  - empire
KW  - eugenics
KW  - fandom
KW  - fantasy
KW  - fascism
KW  - feminism
KW  - film
KW  - futurity
KW  - gay
KW  - gender
KW  - lesbian
KW  - media
KW  - modernity
KW  - music
KW  - narrative
KW  - negativity
KW  - new media
KW  - pleasure
KW  - politics
KW  - punk
KW  - race
KW  - remix
KW  - reproduction
KW  - science fiction
KW  - sexuality
KW  - slash fiction
KW  - slavery
KW  - speculation
KW  - technology
KW  - television
KW  - temporality
KW  - transnational
KW  - utopia
KW  - vampire
KW  - vidding
KW  - video
KW  - violence
KW  - visual culture
KW  - whiteness
KW  - world-building
KW  - world-making
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction FoundationTraverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital mediaOld Futures explores the social, political, and cultural forces feminists, queer people, and people of color invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way to imagine transforming the present. Lothian shows how queer possibilities emerge when we practice the art of speculation: of imagining things otherwise than they are and creating stories from that impulse. Queer theory offers creative ways to think about time, breaking with straight and narrow paths toward the future laid out for the reproductive family, the law-abiding citizen, and the believer in markets. Yet so far it has rarely considered the possibility that, instead of a queer present reshaping the ways we relate to past and future, the futures imagined in the past can lead us to queer the present. Narratives of possible futures provide frameworks through which we understand our present, but the discourse of "the" future has never been a singular one. Imagined futures have often been central to the creation and maintenance of imperial domination and technological modernity; Old Futures offers a counterhistory of works that have sought-with varying degrees of success-to speculate otherwise. Examining speculative texts from the 1890s to the 2010s, from Samuel R. Delany to Sense8, Lothian considers the ways in which early feminist utopias and dystopias, Afrofuturist fiction, and queer science fiction media have insisted that the future can and must deviate from dominant narratives of global annihilation or highly restrictive hopes for redemption.Each chapter chronicles some of the means by which the production and destruction of futures both real and imagined takes place: through eugenics, utopia, empire, fascism, dystopia, race, capitalism, femininity, masculinity, and many kinds of queerness, reproduction, and sex. Gathering stories of and by populations who have been marked as futureless or left out by dominant imaginaries, Lothian offers new insights into what we can learn from efforts to imaginatively redistribute the future
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