Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (Sexual Cultures)

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Other additions include colour reproductions of work that previously appeared in black and white, and a new foreword, ‘Before and After’, in which Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong’o and Ann Pelligrini reflect on the book’s legacy. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. suvin is saying that scifi's unreal points both at a de-realized current reality and points towards how it could be different.

Book Review: Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (10th Anniversary Edition) by José Esteban Muñoz". that really helped me think about camp, and care about the concept of camp, in a way i hadn't before. The foreword offers an intimate introduction to Cruising Utopia, with the three authors having been close friends and colleagues of Muñoz at New York University and the current editors of Sexual Cultures, an influential book series Muñoz co-founded with Pelligrini.I do favor Dissidentifications, but this book has some fantastic subject matter and contributions to the field. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.

I “invoke” (to borrow the bludgeoned verb from Munoz) Fisher to ask what are those of us left to do with these tasks assigned by dead men who largely wrote on the exact same problems as one another: a precarious present, and a look both forward and backward to that which never arrived and that which is yet to arrive. José Muñoz's academic partiality to performance studies greatly enhances his argument for queer futurity. The ideas that gay suicide is an act of self-liberation, that gay men who enjoy masculine men are brainwashed or ignorant, that the fight for gay marriage rights is not one worth fighting, are not just the opinions of an academic writing theory to further his career--they are active dangers to the rights gay people have fought tooth and nail to hold. Joshua Chambers-Letson is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (2018). It is this great refusal of a performance principle that allows the human to feel and know not only our work and our pleasure but also our selves and others.

I was under the impression that the 'problematic' part of marriage was that men used it to exploit women. Alas, while there are a handful of lesbians here and there and an aside about a trans friend, this book is totally about gay men, mainly pre-AIDS gay male culture and art. so maybe i'm just having difficulty onboarding onto this project, but i respect the challenge of this project, of reading utopianism and hope into tragic or banal or just fucked-over lives. The title was used for a recent exhibition of work by Peter Hujar, whose gorgeous black-and-white photographs capture downtown New York’s ‘cruising utopia’ of the 1960s and 1970s. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series.

My only reservations about the book are that at times it was excessive with the philosophical jargon and somewhat pedantic in discussions of definitions; this was more so the case in the final few chapters about a few artists and their movements. But after reading Muñoz, it's easy to think that these warnings are just more conservatism that keeps us from making real progress. That is to say, Muñoz exemplifies the necessity for change embodied in time and space, and the constant (re)consideration(s) of hope and potentiality inherent in queer Otherness. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. More defiantly, he exalts the persistence of commercial sex spaces in the face of ‘antisex and homphobic policings,’ and celebrates the overlay of punk and queer in performance spaces.there is something kind of dangerous i feel about twinning queerness with not-yet-here-ness and not-yet-hereness with failure. With its emphasis on ‘getting lost’ within a network of social and sexual relations, Cruising Utopia performs a mode of evidencing queer lives and culture that is comparable to the act of cruising itself. I don't know if I bought ~every~ argument about the pieces that signify utopian futurity but I literally cannot complain.