Mel Y. Chen is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies and Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. They are the author of
Afterwards: Telling the End Not to Wait
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Published:November 2023
In what could be described as a temporal blurring or scrambling in the spirit of intoxication, as well as an exemplary pronouncement of intoxicated method, “Afterwards” assembles a series of foiled endings: a truncated story running alongside jagged contemporaneities that have previously appeared in the book; a disassembly and reconsolidation of private/public dyads in the “end times” of the Covid pandemic; and a final attention to the raw potentiality of the queer, disabled, raced, and ultimately blurred, undergrounds/undergrowths that populate Mai-Thu Perret’s Underground.
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