Some people are allowed to have a future--a linear destiny with a definite end--in order to be ends in themselves; they may be defined as such in contrast to those denied a future. This selective wielding of futurity is one tool of the settler-colonialism and racialized oppression of what I call the “Master’s Temporality.” A liberative theology of indigenous and land-based futures is uniquely challenged to disrupt these temporal norms without replicating their systems of exclusion. Doing so requires eschewing telos in favor of immanent ambiguity.
With the interdisciplinary scholars of the More Worlds Collective, I will argue that any movement toward liberative futurity must fully disavow mastery. My aim without aim is an anti-telic liberative theology of time based in embodiment rather than transcendence.