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Автор: José Esteban Muñoz
Издательство: Ingram
Серия: Sexual Cultures
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       10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

       The Then and There of Queer Futurity

      José Esteban Muñoz

      With two additional essays by the author

      and a new foreword by Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong’o, and Ann Pellegrini

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      “For Freddy, Fucking Again,” poem by Diane di Prima, from Freddie Poems (Point Reyes, CA: Eidolon Editions, 1974). Courtesy of the author.

      “Having a Coke with You,” from The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara, by Frank O’Hara, edited by Donald Allen. Copyright © 1971 by Maureen Granville-Smith, Administratrix of The Estate of Frank O’Hara. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

      “A photograph,” Collected Poems, by James Schuyler. Copyright © 1993 by the Estate of James Schuyler. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

      “One Art,” from The Complete Poems, 1927–1979, by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Muñoz, José Esteban, author.

      Title: Cruising utopia : the then and there of queer futurity / Jose Esteban Munoz; with new essays and a foreword by Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong’o, and Ann Pellegrini.

      Description: 10th Anniversary Edition. | New York : New York University Press, [2019] | Series: Sexual cultures | Revised edition of the author’s Cruising utopia, c2009. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018046341 | ISBN 9781479813780 (cl : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781479874569 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781479868780 (eISBN) | ISBN 9781479896226 (eISBN)

      Subjects: LCSH: Queer theory. | Utopias. | Homosexuality and art. | Performance art.

      Classification: LCC HQ76.25 .M86 2019 | DDC 306.7601—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018046341

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       Contents

       Foreword: Before and After

       CRUISING UTOPIA

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction: Feeling Utopia

       1. Queerness as Horizon: Utopian Hermeneutics in the Face of Gay Pragmatism

       2. Ghosts of Public Sex: Utopian Longings, Queer Memories

       3. The Future Is in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia

       4. Gesture, Ephemera, and Queer Feeling: Approaching Kevin Aviance

       5. Cruising the Toilet: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Radical Black Traditions, and Queer Futurity

       6. Stages: Queers, Punks, and the Utopian Performative

       7. Utopia’s Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Intermedia as System

       8. Just Like Heaven: Queer Utopian Art and the Aesthetic Dimension

       9. A Jeté Out the Window: Fred Herko’s Incandescent Illumination

       10. After Jack: Queer Failure, Queer Virtuosity

       Conclusion: “Take Ecstasy with Me”

       TWO ADDITIONAL ESSAYS

       Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

       Hope in the Face of Heartbreak

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

       About the Author

       Color illustrations

       Foreword

       Before and After

      By Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong’o, and Ann Pellegrini

      One may not cast a picture of utopia in a positive manner. Every attempt to describe or portray utopia in a simple way, i.e., it will be like this, would be an attempt to avoid the antinomy of death and to speak about the elimination of death as if death did not exist. That is perhaps the most profound reason, the metaphysical reason, why one can actually talk about utopia only in a negative way …

      —Theodor Adorno, in conversation with Ernst Bloch1

      TO THINK, WRITE, dream, and live in the wake of heartbreak: this is the challenge posed by “Hope in the Face of Heartbreak,” the short essay that is published for the first time in this new edition of Cruising Utopia. It is also the charge we are faced with here: how to think and write after José Muñoz—and also for him—in the painful, temporally out of joint forever “after” of this foreword.

      “Hope in the Face of Heartbreak” was written to be heard and was given as a talk, in September 2013, at the University of Toronto to celebrate the launch of the Women & Gender Studies Institute’s PhD Program. The manuscript bears the traces of the live