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 responsibilitiesone which cannot be
conceived of without social movements' past struggles and current practices.
