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

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Opening with the audacious claim that ‘queerness is not yet here’, the first page of Cruising Utopia introduces the reader to the book’s central thesis – that queerness is a future-oriented, profoundly utopian mode of being and doing in the world.

The current age is leaving queers feeling more and more hopeless; this book helped me combat this hopelessness. I don't know if I bought ~every~ argument about the pieces that signify utopian futurity but I literally cannot complain. Perfect example of how academic pontification on social justice can actively work towards rescinding the hard-won victories of marginalized groups. In the course of an introduction, a conclusion, and the ten lush chapters in between, Cruising Utopia elaborates an archive of queer aesthetic practices from the present and the recent past.The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series. It also discussed trans issues very little, but when it did it was done in a radical way and I think his discussions of queerness as a whole include trans/gnc issues anyway. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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.

De tekst is vol van ideeën en dromen, en mag zodanig niet ontbreken wanneer we praten over queerness: ‘ I contend that if queerness is to have any value whatsoever, it must be viewed as being visible only in the horizon. In spite of its refreshing frankness about gay sex, this text is shockingly detached from the actual struggles average gay people face every day, and about what gay liberation actually looks like. 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.In this interesting study of queerness and identity politics, Munoz (performance studies, New York Univ. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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. Book Review: Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (10th Anniversary Edition) by José Esteban Muñoz".

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. 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. For example, the fourth chapter, ‘Gesture, Ephemera and Queer Feeling’, opens with a childhood memory that segues into a description of contemporary ‘lounge-punk’ cabaret duo Kiki and Herb.He was co-editor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol (1996) and Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America (1997) and founding co-editor of the Sexual Cultures series at NYU Press. The writing style of the book is described as "cruising" its subject matter, moving quickly between a wide range of topics. that's the inversion i think; while munoz is pushing that queerness is about enacting something that doesn't exist and Hope-fully, that does kind of just mean that you are really living something that doesn't exist right now. Gay liberation’s activist past and pragmatic present are merely prologue to a queer cultural future, Muñoz suggests in this critical condemnation of the political status quo.