Cruising Utopia

by Munoz, Jose Esteban

• ISBN13: 9780814757284
• ISBN10: 0814757286
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

The LGBT agenda has for too long been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.

Author Biography

Jos Esteban Muoz is Associate Professor and Chair of Performance Studies at NYU. He is the author of Disidentifications and co-editor of Pop Out and Everynight Life.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Feeling Utopia	p. 1
Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism	p. 19
Ghosts of Public Sex: Utopian Longings, Queer Memories	p. 33
The Future Is in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia	p. 49
Gesture, Ephemera, and Queer Feeling: Approaching Kevin Aviance	p. 65
Cruising the Toilet: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Radical Black Traditions, and Queer Futurity	p. 83
Stages: Queers, Punks, and the Utopian Performative	p. 97
Utopia's Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Intermedia as System	p. 115
Just Like Heaven: Queer Utopian Art and the Aesthetic Dimension	p. 131
A Jeté Out the Window: Fred Herko's Incandescent Illumination	p. 147
After Jack: Queer Failure, Queer Virtuosity	p. 169
Conclusion: "Take Ecstasy with Me"	p. 185
Notes	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 217
About the Author	p. 223
Color illustrations follow page	p. 84
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