RESEARCH CHAPTER 09
Why must intimacy share one future?
Intimacy need not follow the normative sequence of meeting, marriage, reproduction, and inheritance; relations have temporal rights of their own.
Central question
How can cinema give a relation beginnings, intervals, and endings that do not follow the sequence of meeting, marriage, reproduction, and inheritance?
Questions still open
- Which repetitions, intervals, promises, and unfulfilled plans alter the visibility of a relation rather than merely describe character psychology?
Argument and analysis
Intimacy need not follow the normative sequence of meeting, marriage, reproduction, and inheritance; relations have temporal rights of their own.
Days, Viet and Nam, Fin de siècle, and Tropical Malady move asynchronous, brief, and non-normative futures from psychology into form. The task is not to label a film queer but to observe who defines when a relation begins, ends, or must be fulfilled as one future.
Track intervals of meeting, repeated promises, and unfulfilled plans: do these temporal differences change the relation’s visibility?
Scope
Hypothesis: chrononormativity comes from an interdisciplinary research context. The chapter brings it into film-form analysis without attributing the term to Deleuze.
- Chinese manuscript locator
- Bearing Time Chinese DOCX, paragraphs 806–874.
References
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CHINESE RESEARCH MANUSCRIPT
Bearing time: the expanded thirteen chapters
The complete Chinese chapter and its bibliography.
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- DOCX paragraphs 806–874
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SCHOLARSHIP
Deleuze time-image: global research review
Surveys research on queer temporality, bodies, and contemporary cinema.
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- Bodies, gender, and contemporary temporal-politics sections of the Deleuze time-image global research review.
- Note
- Atlas literature review; the listed articles and monographs are the sources for individual arguments.
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ATLAS ANALYSIS
Deleuze time-image film catalogue
Compares action, memory, sound, and media material across films.
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- The corresponding film entries in the Deleuze time-image film catalogue.
Films and concepts
Concepts and terms · 1
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Films and viewing entries · 2
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Counterexamples and limits
Queer characters, brief relations, or nonmarital life are not sufficient. If temporal form still resolves the relation into one normative future, subject identity does not establish asynchronous intimacy.
Further reading
Sound can arrive before its object, outlast the body, and cross the cut while carrying invisible time on its own.
08Action continues, yet no future arrivesThe contemporary crisis is not too little action but too much action that cannot accumulate into workers’ own future.
10How unnamed, unreturned, and unaccounted-for deaths organize the presentThe dead continue to organize the living’s time; a corpse, funeral, or ghost does not automatically make a death-image.