Muñoz, José Esteban: Cruising utopia : The then and there of queer futurity / José Esteban Muñoz. - New York, NY [u.a.] : New York Univ. Press, 2009. - XI, 223 S. : Ill. ; 23 cmFormerly CIP Uk. - 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
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