Cruising utopia

Muñoz, José Esteban.

Cruising utopia the then and there of queer futurity / [electronic resource] : José Esteban Muñoz. - New York : New York University Press, c2009. - xi, 223 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.). - Sexual cultures . - Sexual cultures. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Queer theory.
Utopias.
Homosexuality and art.
Performance art.


Electronic books.

HQ76.25 / .M86 2009eb

306.7601