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

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that really helped me think about camp, and care about the concept of camp, in a way i hadn't before. These pages have described aesthetic and political practices that need to be seen as necessary modes of stepping out of this place and time to something fuller, vaster, more sensual, and brighter. Note: This review gives the views of the author, and not the position of the LSE Review of Books blog, or of the London School of Economics.

Because I have to say I'd have been annoying to have in class for discussion if we were talking about this.suvin is saying that scifi's unreal points both at a de-realized current reality and points towards how it could be different. there is something kind of dangerous i feel about twinning queerness with not-yet-here-ness and not-yet-hereness with failure. Muñoz takes Ernst Bloch as his Virgil as he descends into the dark woods of futurity looking for signposts along the way that will guide him to a place of hope, belonging, queerness and quirkiness. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall).

it helped also to think about Louis Gluck's Eros the Bittersweet; which was sort of about knowledge+love, and how knowledge+love is an action of reaching towards something perfect but not attaining it perfectly, just reaching all the time. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Munoz also seems to miss the most salient point of Halberstam’s writing on queer time and failure, most frustratingly that the queer world is not just a set of NY artists from a pretty narrow temporal sample. He reframes and responds to Edelman's pessimistic notion of reproductive futurism with an alternative queer critique based on an analysis of queer and trans of color artistic production. I picked this up off the new-books shelf at the library because the title caught my eye, but was really disappointed in it.

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. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity is a book in the field of queer theory by José Esteban Muñoz, published in 2009.

Since he is explicitly critiquing the current LGBT movement, I had hopes that his "queer" wasn't a synonym for gay men as it (and LGBT, really) so often is. Where the text lacks rhetorical frankness, it excels in intellectual thought, adds to the critical advancement of queer thought that continues to challenge queer assimilation into popular, heteronormative culture. Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement. Brilliant, extraordinary, and necessary, Muñoz’s critical refusal of queer pragmatism, his commitment to the utopian force of the radical attempt—the radical aesthetic, erotic, and philosophical experiment—is indispensable in an historical moment characterized by political surrender and intellectual timidity passing itself off as boldness. 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 the pragmatic present.