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José Esteban Muñoz

Cruising utopia : the then and there of queer futurity /José Esteban Muñoz - New York : New York University Press , ©2009. - xi, 223 pages ; 23 cm - Sexual cultures. .

Queerness as horizon: utopian hermeneutics in the face of gay pragmatism --
Ghosts of public sex: utopian longings, queer memories --
The future is in the present: sexual avant-gardes and the performance of utopia --
Gesture, ephemera, and queer feeling: approaching Kevin Aviance --
Cruising the toilet: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, radical black traditions, and queer futurity --
Stages: queers, punks, and the utopian performative --
Utopia's seating chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and queer intermedia as system --
Just like heaven: queer utopian art and the aesthetic dimension --
A jeté out the window: Fred Herko's incandescent illumination --
After Jack: queer failure, queer virtuosity.

The author argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.

ISBN: 9780814757284

Publisher. No.: Brijwasi Book Distributors ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social Sciences

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Performance art--Queer theory--Homosexuality and art

Dewey Class. No.: 306.7601 MUN