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

By: Series: Sexual culturesPublication details: New York, N.Y. ; London : New York University Press, c2009.Description: xi, 223 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780814757277 (cloth)
  • 0814757278 (cloth)
  • 9780814757284 (pbk.)
  • 0814757286 (pbk.)
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Contents:
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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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Purple 306.76 MUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 11941

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.