Queerness is Proleptic Being
02/02/2022

The
import of Dewey's twin concepts of the ineffability of immediate existence and
the proleptic being of all "objects" ("objects" and "things" are mis-named emergent events/processes) is nothing less than to say that existence
itself, life itself, "is" queer. Being, becoming, queering, and
perpetual disruption is the ineradicable nature of an unfinished quantum reality. Queerness, then, is
proleptic being; it never truly "is," save for its efficacy in
bringing about an altered state of affairs whose function it is, in turn, to
bring about a further and unpredictable state of affairs, ad infinitum.
Queerness is efficacy of, for, and in change, not a fixed property of a settled, finished existence.