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munoz is saying that queer performance is also almost-unreal, it's working not on 'straight time' (term munoz borrows for i guess the whole heterenormative capitalist hegemony), and in that way also points to how not-set the current reality is and points towards a queer future. He discusses the uneasy reception to the 1996 book Gary in Your Pocket, written before Fisher’s death from AIDS-related complications in 1994, and edited by his graduate supervisor and friend Sedgwick.
but maybe Munoz is skipping steps here because it is obvious to his intended readers, that if people watch a play and see within it a queer utopia they will become more radicalized or feel more community or something, so that this book really didn't feel the need to connect any dots to why reading utopia into drag performances will ultimately like, do anything. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Like the way mainstream horror novels are often bluntly conservative in the way they paint otherness as a black/white binary, "dystopian literature" often creates a similar binary. 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. 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.
José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futuritybreathed new life into North American queer studies when first published in 2009. LA and its scene helped my proto-queer self, the queer child in me, imagine a stage, both temporal and physical, where I could be myself or, more nearly, imagine a self that was in process, a self that has always been in the process of becoming. there is something to the juxtaposition of what is-now and what can be or is-but-isn't-the-whole-world-it-just-is-in-this-moment that is beautiful in a sad way. my beef i think is , especially post-hennessy "profits and pleasure", feeling a little unromanced by the Utility of looking for queer utopia in art.Muñoz takes Ernst Bloch as his Virgil as he descends into the dark woods of futurity looking for signposts along the way that will guide him to a place of hope, belonging, queerness and quirkiness. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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. I am not a graduate students in any of these subjects, though I do enjoy reading and expanding my knowledge in areas new to me. Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement.
Another reason for Cruising Utopia‘s enduring influence is the critique it offered of the ‘anti-relational thesis’ that dominated North American queer studies in the early 2000s, exemplified by Lee Edelman’s 2004 No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Oh god, I wish I was back in school, and I could use the material in this book on a project of my own. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. No obstante, me alegró leer que cuando se encuentra con sus amigos los maricones, disfruta de ser el más camp.Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. it doesn't work the same with two men, as in there is not the same potential for sex-based exploitation. The current age is leaving queers feeling more and more hopeless; this book helped me combat this hopelessness. I used this book several times for my MA thesis, so it was definately an important part of my graduate experience. Muñoz offers a view of queer utopia that recognizes queerness as the coming potentiality, something that has not yet arrived, a hopeful future beyond normativity and reproductive futurism.
Muñoz is at his absolute best when he's weaving and recontextualizing philosophical strains around the concept of a forward-dawning queer futurity, using queer movements and gestures such as dance, cruising, drag, and protest as evidence of the utopian longing at the core of queer desire. Chambers-Letson, Nyong’o and Pelligrini argue that ‘queerness, blackness, brownness, minoritarian becoming, and the utopian imaginary […] all cohere around a certain “failure to be normal”’ (xiv). That said, it was a let down to have so many of those sources be almost exclusively men,mostly cis, mostly able-bodied, mostly thin. Maybe this is because they do much closer engagement / close reading of the materials at hand, or maybe it’s because it approaches work that feels so much more difficult to tackle, so much more barbed and combustible and ecstatic troubling work.
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