Cruising utopia : the then and there of queer futurity / José Esteban Muñoz, with two additional essays by the author ; and a new foreword by Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong'o, and Ann Pellegrini.

Author/creator Muñoz, José Esteban author.
Format Book
Edition10th Anniversary edition.
PublicationNew York : New York University Press, [2019]
Descriptionxxi, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Subjects

Portion of title Then and there of queer futurity
SeriesSexual cultures
Sexual cultures. ^A414743
Contents Introduction: Feeling utopia -- 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 -- Conclusion: "Take ecstasy with me" -- Appendix I: Race, sex, and the incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Appendix II: Hope in the face of heartbreak -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.
Abstract "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 the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Muñoz argued that the here and now were not enough and issued an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination. On the anniversary of its original publication, this edition includes two essays that extend and expand the project of Cruising Utopia, as well as a new foreword by the current editors of Sexual Cultures, the book series he co-founded with Ann Pellegrini 20 years ago. This 10th anniversary edition celebrates the lasting impact that Cruising Utopia has had on the decade of queer of color critique that followed and introduces a new generation of readers to a future not yet here."--Amazon.com viewed May 9, 2023.
General noteRevised edition of the author's Cruising utopia, c2009.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2018046341
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