Cruising utopia
Subtitle: the then and there of queer futurity
By: José Esteban Muñoz.
Series: Sexual cultures
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814757277; 9780814757284
Subjects: Queer theory; Utopias; Homosexuality and art; Performance art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Queerness as horizon: utopian hermeneutics in the face of gay pragmatism; title: Ghosts of public sex; title: The future is in the present: sexual avant-gardes and the performance of utopia; title: Gesture, ephemera, and queer feeling: approaching Kevin Aviance; title: Cruising the toilet: Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, radical black traditions and queer futurity; title: Stages: queers, punks, and the utopian performative; title: Utopia's seating chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and queer intermedia as system; title: Just like heaven: queer utopian art and the aesthetic dimension; title: A jet out the window: Fred Herko's incandescent illumination; title: After Jack: queer failure, queer virtuosity.