Washing the Dying: Labor, Worldmaking, and Action in the Queer Temporalities of AIDS Hospice Care.

Drawing on experiences providing nursing care for people dying from AIDS in Frankfurt in the early 1990s, I argue that hospice care reveals a queer temporality that is best understood as an entangled field established by the conflicting futurities of both labor and of utopian worldmaking, as well as by a present emerging out of cooperative action. This present is both overdetermined through multiple “copresences” (Beliso-De Jesús) and underdetermined in its outcome because its futurity is shaped by “xenoteloses” (Blas,), i.e., ends that escape utopian or capitalist blueprinting. It is neither open nor foreclosed to futurity.