Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9–12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

“By the time the apocalypse began, the world had already ended,” the poet Franny Choi writes. “It ended every day for a century or two. It ended, and another ending world spun in its place.” Thinking alongside Choi’s depiction of ending and ongoing times, we turn our attention to the art and communities and labor that emerge when the future is called into question. How does futurelessness …