Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (Sexual Cultures)

Product Information

Munoz also seems to miss the most salient point of Halberstam’s writing on queer time and failure, most frustratingly that the queer world is not just a set of NY artists from a pretty narrow temporal sample. My Own Private Latin America: The Politics and Poetics of Trade," (with John Emil Vincent), Dispositio/n 50 (Spring 1998 [2000]), 19–36. I would have given this a 3/5, but I think the inclusion of the two extra essays in the new edition actually speak to Munoz’s ability to write with less spurious, less academy-poisoned posture, and reflect my longing for a followup that would’ve built on the many budding ideas in this work. The Autoethnographic Performance: Reading Richard Fung's Queer Hybridity." Performing Hybridity. Eds. Jennifer Natalya Fink and May Joseph. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

a b Vargas, Deborah. "Ruminations of Lo Sucio as a Latino Queer Analytic". American Quarterly. 66 (3).

The Then and There of Queer Futurity

Muñoz challenges and questions contemporary mainstream gay and lesbian politics. He argues that present gay and lesbian politics, whose political goal is gay rights, same-sex marriage, and gays in the military, are trapped within the limiting normative time and present. [14] Following Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope, Muñoz is interested in the socially symbolic dimension of certain aesthetic processes that promote political idealism. [15] Muñoz re-articulates queerness as something "not yet here." [16] Queerness "is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough." [16] Muñoz reconceptualizes queerness from identity politics and brings it into the field of aesthetics. For Muñoz, queer aesthetics, such as the visual artwork of Vaginal Davis, offers a blueprint to map future social relations. Queerness in Muñoz's conceptualization, is a rejection of "straight time", the "here and now" and an insistence of the "then and there." [16] Muñoz proposes the concept of "disidentificatory performances," as acts of transgression and creation, by which racial and sexual minorities, or minoritarian subjects articulate the truth about cultural hegemony. [16] Muñoz critiques Lee Edelman's book "No Future" and the concept of queer death drive that results in Muñoz theorization of queer futurity or queer sociality. [16] Queer futurity thus "illuminates a landscape of possibility for minoritarian subjects through the aesthetic-strategies for surviving and imagining utopian modes of being in the world." [17] Ephemera as evidence [ edit ] Joshua Chambers-Letson is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (2018).Nyong'o Tavia : José Esteban Muñoz (1967–2013) was Professor and Chair of Performance Studies at New York University. His works include Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999), Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009), as well as the forthcoming The Sense of Brown. He was co-editor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol (1996) and Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America (1997) and founding co-editor of the Sexual Cultures series at NYU Press.Chambers-Letson Joshua : Warner, Sara (2011). "Review of Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz". Modern Drama. 54 (2): 257. doi: 10.1353/mdr.2011.0022. S2CID 191330268. Muñoz cruises art objects (which include a dizzying array of poetry, prose, autobiography, painting, photography, and performance) with the same urgency and rapacious appetite as he cruises theory, lingering for no more than a moment on any one person, place, or thing.

Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009). New York: NYU Press. ISBN 978-1-4798-7456-9. Translated to Spanish ( Utopía queer, Caja Negra, 2020) and French ( Cruiser l'utopie, Les Presses du Réel, 2021).

In this Book

Ward, Jane (September 2008). "White Normativity: The Cultural Dimensions of Whiteness in a Racially Diverse LGBT Organization". Sociological Perspectives. 51 (3): 563–586. doi: 10.1525/sop.2008.51.3.563. S2CID 144021623. Royster, Francesca (February 2014). "In Memory of Jose E. Munoz: Making Queer Future". Windy City Times. 29 (20): 4. Muñoz: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU". Archived from the original on 2015-08-17 . Retrieved 2011-05-10. Joy, Eileen (December 6, 2013). "Having a Coke With You: For José Esteban Munoz (1966-2013)". Punctum Books. Note: This review gives the views of the author, and not the position of the LSE Review of Books blog, or of the London School of Economics.