Navigating Waves of Capital and History: On Speculation and Submersion in Delany.
This essay reads two texts by Samuel R. Delany--Times Square Red, Times Square Blue and "Atlantis: Model 1924"--that prominently thematize spontaneous queer encounter and the financialized production of urban space. It explores the writerly practices that open up the subjective space of sexual cultu...
| Published in: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 346 - 368 |
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University of California Press
Nov2023
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