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    Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity 10th Anniversary Edition
    Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity 10th Anniversary Edition
    Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity 10th Anniversary Edition
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    Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity 10th Anniversary Edition

    Written by Jose Esteban Munoz, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong'o and Ann Pellegrini

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    About this audiobook

    The LGBT agenda for too long has 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.

    Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, Jose Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O'Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future.

    In a startling repudiation of what the LGBT movement has held dear, Muñoz contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound phenomenon, a "not yet here" that critically engages pragmatic presentism. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, Cruising Utopia argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 23, 2019
    ISBN9781977338518
    Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity 10th Anniversary Edition

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      Anclado en la idea de utopía de Bloch, Muñoz plantea lo queer como un horizonte, no como un fin, como una forma de escapar al tiempo presente de la heteronormatividad. Para hacerlo analiza a autores como Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Elizabeth Bishop en cuya obra, plantea, lo queer es presentado en su potencialidad, en su condición de posibilidad.
      El autor reniega de ciertas políticas gay encaminadas a la conformidad, a la normalización y asimilación de las disidencias género-sexuales en el mundo heterosexual, como el matrimonio gay o la aceptación en el ejército.