Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition : : The Then and There of Queer Futurity / / José Esteban Muñoz.

A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Sexual Cultures ; 50
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 8 Illustrations, color, 23 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Cruising Utopia
  • Introduction: Feeling Utopia
  • 1. Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism
  • 2. Ghosts of Public Sex: Utopian Longings, Queer Memories
  • 3. The Future Is in the Present: Sexual Avant- Gardes and the Performance of Utopia
  • 4. Gesture, Ephemera, and Queer Feeling: Approaching Kevin Aviance
  • 5. Cruising the Toilet: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Radical Black Traditions, and Queer Futurity
  • 6. Stages: Queers, Punks, and the Utopian Performative
  • 7. Utopia’s Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Intermedia as System
  • 8. Just Like Heaven: Queer Utopian Art and the Aesthetic Dimension
  • 9. A Jeté Out the Window: Fred Herko’s Incandescent Illumination
  • 10. After Jack: Queer Failure, Queer Virtuosity
  • Conclusion: “Take Ecstasy with Me”
  • Two Additional Essays
  • Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  • Hope in the Face of Heartbreak
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Index