Cruising utopia : the then and there of queer futurity / José Esteban Muñoz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muñoz, José Esteban, author.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Sexual cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory.

Utopias.

Homosexuality and art.

Performance art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 223 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2009]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2009]

System Details:

text file

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."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781479868780

1479868787

Publisher Number:

99985687975

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.