The Heart-Sink and the Hood-Wink: A Creative-Critical Assessment of Temporal Queerness in the Year 2016

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article uses a creative-critical writing practice and methodology to analyse time in the year 2016, asking how digital technology influenced the ways in which the populace of the Global West received time in 2016. Important to the paper is an auto-ethnographic interpretation of ‘felt’ time and affect. Incorporating the theory of Jack Halberstam and Johannes Fabian, the article explores what the author defines as a temporal queerness that pervaded the year 2016. It pivots around two primary cultural events, the election of Donald Trump and the result of the U.K.’s Brexit referendum in order to make the case that progress is not linear and real change may be rooted in a different tense.