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028 _aBrijwasi Book Distributors
_b;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092
_c;BW/004806
_d;21/05/2018
082 _a306.7601 MUN
100 _aJosé Esteban Muñoz
245 _aCruising utopia
_b: the then and there of queer futurity
_c/José Esteban Muñoz
260 _aNew York
_b: New York University Press
_c, ©2009.
300 _axi, 223 pages
_c ; 23 cm
490 _aSexual cultures.
505 _a 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.
520 _aThe author argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.
650 _aSocial Sciences
655 _aPerformance art
_bQueer theory
_bHomosexuality and art
700 _aJosé Esteban Muñoz
942 _cBOOK
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