Liberation, caught between queer nihilism and eschatological certainty, must seek an third way beyond the binary of hopefulness and hopelessness through the negation of both. It must transpose itself into an apophatic register as the experience of continual failure, an uncertain endless becoming, that might be called simple hope.
In Florida and elsewhere, communities facing technological and environmental risks do well to adopt the ethics and politics of precaution.
By Ted Nunez
