Bent Experiments in Time
Queer futurity has become one of the most durable concepts in contemporary queer theory. For more than two decades, debates around futurity have oscillated (primarily among scholars in the US) between utopian longing, political refusal, and temporal deviation. The future has been imagined as horizon, as threat, as negation, and as a site of ethical refusal. Yet what often falls away in these discussions is the question of how queer futures are practised—not imagined abstractly, but lived, tested, rehearsed, and sometimes abandoned through artistic and cultural experimentation.
