Reanimating adulthood / Animated becoming

In 'Reanimating Adulthood' there is play between Crawford and Halberstam's address to animation: as a cinematic genre with revolutionary potential (Halberstam); and as the inspiration to direct this revolutionary potential towards the articulation of evolving imaginaries of adulthood in late modernity (Crawford). I am animated by Crawford's invitation to think about how we might re-imagine the human and the subject in a time and space marked by neoliberal capital and ecological threat. Crawford takes up, from Halberstam's work on 'Pixarvolt' animated features, the theme of revolution as powerfully transformed worlds. I, in turn, work with an iteration of revolution as turning, as a circular movement rather than a linear trajectory. This is a circular movement that animates possibilities for becoming, for queering becoming, and becoming queer, in a queer(ed) time and space.