Time is lived; it is full of attachments and desires, histories and futures; it is not a hollow form (not a “hatful of hollow”) that is the same always.

present moment is more

In my theorizing of temporality I explore forms of desirous, embodied being that are out of sync with the ordinarily linear measurements of everyday life, that engage heterogeneous temporalities or that precipitate out of time altogether—forms of being that I shall argue are queer by virtue of their particular engagements with time.

now has no duration, so how can you talk about its being, how can it be said to exist at all?

rigorously delimited scholarship from any other more explicitly affective enterprise.

Queer, amateur: these are mutually reinforcing terms.

love and knowledge are as inextricable as the links in chain mail. I

My broadest goal in this book is not only to explore but also to claim the possibility of a fuller, denser, more crowded now that all sorts of theorists tell us is extant but that often eludes our temporal grasp.

times that are operant in the literature of the Middle Ages as well as the expansive now that can result from engagement with that literature.