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Cruising utopiaJosé Esteban Muñoz

Cruising utopia

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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, José 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…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
HardcoverNYU Press20192809781479813780
PaperbackNYU Press20192809781479874569
EditionNew York University Press20092349780814759516
EditionNew York University Press20092349780814757277
UtopiasHomosexuality and artPerformance artQueer theoryHq76.25 .m86 2009306.7601