Author(s): Isabell Lorey

Feminism studies

"Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation.  Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism."

In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense; one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth.  Her queer feminist political theory formulates a fundamental critique of masculinist concepts of the people, representation, institutions and the multitude.  In doing so, she unfolds an original concept of a presentist democracy based on care and interrelatedness, on the irreducibility of responsibilities - one which cannot be conceived of without social movements' past struggles and current practices.