the now is never purely there at all: it is a transition, always divided between no longer and not yet; each present now is stretched out and spanned by a past now and a future

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.

spatialization of time

desire can reveal a temporally multiple world in the now

Queer, amateur: these are mutually reinforcing terms.

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.

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

Queerness, I maintain in this book, has a temporal dimension—as anyone knows whose desire has been branded as “arrested development” or dismissed as “just a phase”—and, concomitantly and crucially, as I hope to show, temporal experiences can render you queer.

I offer them as provocations that will, I hope, help readers of How Soon Is Now? to develop other frameworks and find other examples.