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Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition The Then and There of Queer Futurity【電子書籍】 Jos Esteban Mu ozCruising Utopia The Then and There of Queer Futurity【電子書籍】 Jose Esteban Munoz
 

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  • <p><strong>A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining workーan intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars</strong></p> <p><em>Cruising Utopia</em> 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, Jos? Esteban Mu?oz argued that the here and now were not enough and issued an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.</p> <p>On the anniversary of its original publication, this edition includes two essays that extend and expand the project of <em>Cruising Utopia</em>, 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 <em>Cruising Utopia</em> has had on the decade of qu...
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  • <p>The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.</p><p><b>Cruising Utopia</b> seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O’Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future.</p><p>In a startling repudiation of what the LGBT movement has held dear, Muñoz contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound ph...
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