The Future of Next Wednesday Night: Douglas Crimp's Queer Planning in an Early Year of AIDS

dc.contributor.advisorReckson, Lindsay Vail, 1982-
dc.contributor.authorCohen-Mungan, Shana
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-15T18:02:16Z
dc.date.available2024-07-15T18:02:16Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractIn this essay, I close read Douglas Crimp’s 1987 weekly planner to offer a theory of what I call the “queer planning” that unfolds on and around its pages. Queer planning is the improvisational process of devising social connectivity through the quotidian gestures which underly and complement various scales of social movement to fashion an impossible future. I focus on the everyday acts of imagination, experiment, and collaboration that José Esteban Muñoz, Fred Moten, and Stefano Harney connect to queer of color potentiality and fugitive planning, hoping to open a sense of how queer relation sustained itself amidst the AIDS catastrophe’s decimation of social life. Queer planning revises theories of queer (anti)futurity which either deny queerness access to the future or situate queerness on a distant horizon, aligning with a death drive or utopia respectively. Instead, planning engages a queer future as physically and temporally proximate as the planner’s weekly scope, insisting on a temporality of possibility amidst mass death.
dc.description.awardThe Terry M. Krieger '69 Memorial Prize
dc.description.sponsorshipHaverford College. Department of English
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10066/50267
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject.lcshSexual minority culture
dc.subject.lcshQueer theory
dc.subject.lcshAIDS (Disease)--History
dc.subject.lcshCrimp, Douglas
dc.subject.lcshMuñoz, José Esteban
dc.subject.lcshMoten, Fred
dc.subject.lcshHarney, Stefano, 1962-
dc.titleThe Future of Next Wednesday Night: Douglas Crimp's Queer Planning in an Early Year of AIDS
dc.typeThesis
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